Susanna Ashton

Sep 30, 2024 | scdailygazette.com | Susanna Ashton

In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was born enslaved on a plantation in South Carolina and trained to spend his life picking cotton. But instead of living a life as a slave, he escaped bondage and became an influential anti-slavery lecturer and writer. He also had a key role in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s celebrated novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which historians have argued helped trigger the Civil War by its depiction of the subhuman treatment afforded Black men and women.

Aug 13, 2024 | historynewsnetwork.org | Susanna Ashton

In December 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, who had a modest sideline in magazine writing, hid a fugitive in her house. A friendly neighbor had sent the man over, and so it was that the little-known writer and harried mother Harriet Beecher Stowe opened her door. It was bitterly cold, and Stowe’s house was crowded with children. Her husband was away. And yet she opened the door — a criminal act, in 1850.

Aug 13, 2024 | hnn.us | Susanna Ashton

In December 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, who had a modest sideline in magazine writing, hid a fugitive in her house. A friendly neighbor had sent the man over, and so it was that the little-known writer and harried mother Harriet Beecher Stowe opened her door. It was bitterly cold, and Stowe’s house was crowded with children. Her husband was away. And yet she opened the door — a criminal act, in 1850.

Aug 5, 2024 | smithsonianmag.com | Susanna Ashton

In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was born enslaved on a plantation in South Carolina and trained to spend his life picking cotton. But instead of living a life of enslavement, he escaped bondage and became an influential antislavery lecturer and writer. He also played a key role in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s celebrated 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which historians have argued helped trigger the Civil War through its depiction of the subhuman treatment afforded to Black men and women.

Aug 1, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Susanna Ashton

An old wooden fence surrounds a replica of a one-room windowless cabin in Chopin, La., like the one that might have been the last home of slave Tom in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The 1852 fictional story, set in a Louisiana Red River plantation, was based on true incidents, probably including the escape from slavery of John Andrew Jackson, whom Stowe helped on his way to Canada.