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The Black fugitive who inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and the end of US slavery
Born enslaved, John Andrew Jackson spent his life fighting for freedom as a fugitive, abolitionist, lecturer and writer. Along the way, he met an aspiring writer.
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Watch: Harriet Beecher Stowe House reopens to the public after 8-year preservation project
The house at 2950 Gilbert Ave. has been preserved as a museum to Stowe, whose family lived there from 1833 to 1852. Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin," the influential anti-slavery novel inspired ...
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