A Plausible Man The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
06.08.2024
Abbildungen
Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
Verlag
New press USASeitenzahl
368
Maße (L/B/H)
23.1/15.5/3 cm
Gewicht
612 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-62097-819-1
In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in her house. While John Andrew Jackson stayed for only one night, he made a lasting impression: drawing from this experience, Stowe began to write Uncle Tom's Cabin, one of the most influential books in American history and the novel that helped inspire the overthrow of slavery in the United States.
A Plausible Man unfolds as a historical detective story, as Susanna Ashton combs obscure records for evidence of Jackson's remarkable flight from slavery to freedom, his quest to liberate his enslaved family, and his emergence as an international advocate for abolition. This fresh and original work takes us through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the restoration of white supremacy--where we last glimpse Jackson losing his freedom again on a Southern chain gang. And in a riveting encounter, Ashton meets Jackson's descendants in South Carolina, where they are introduced to his epic biography for the first time.
In the spirit of Tiya Miles's prizewinning All That She Carried and Erica Armstrong Dunbar's Never Caught, Susanna Ashton breathes life into a striving and nuanced American character, one unmistakably rooted in the vast sweep of nineteenth-century America.
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