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- Tampa Bay Times
Here’s the Black fugitive who inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and the end of US slavery
In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was born enslaved on a plantation in South Carolina and trained to spend his life picking cotton. As ...
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- The State
How the the story of the slave who inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ still has lessons for South Carolina | Opinion
Enslaved farmhand John Andrew Jackson fled a plantation in Sumter County by riding a horse along the roads towards Charleston. Jackson made ...
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