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Stowe’s Cabin Ties Slave Harbored In Maine To Novel
Clemson professor Susanna Ashton argues Harriet Beecher Stowe hid John Andrew Jackson, a Sumter County, South Carolina slave, in Brunswick Maine before writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Jackson later published The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina and recalled Stowe’s shelter in vivid terms. The claim, based on an 1850 letter and Jackson’s account, suggests the enslaved man's experience influenced Stowe’s abolitionist classic.
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