Tampa Bay Times

Here’s the Black fugitive who inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and the end of US slavery

Our editors' top picks to read today. In my biography of John Andrew Jackson, “A Plausible Man,” I detail his remarkable life. An old wooden fence surrounds a replica of a one-room windowless cabin in ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Black Fugitive Who Inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and Helped End Slavery in the U.S.

A few weeks after Harriet Beecher Stowe crossed paths with John Andrew Jackson, she began drafting Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was ...