Bookworm #80 – Author Conversation with Susanna Ashton, “A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

In December 1850, Harriet Beecher Stowe sheltered fugitive slave John Andrew Jackson for one night in Brunswick, Maine—an encounter that helped inspire Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

In A Plausible Man, Ashton pieces together Jackson’s journey from slavery to freedom and his rise as an international abolitionist, uncovering his story through a historical detective lens.

10am - 11:30am

William Clements Library
University of Michigan
909 S. University Ave

Ann Arbor, MI