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A plausible man : the true story of the escaped slave who inspired Uncle Tom's cabin / Susanna Ashton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ashton, Susanna, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jackson, John Andrew.
- Fugitive slaves--United States--Biography.
- Fugitive slaves.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin--Sources.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
- Slavery--United States--History--19th century.
- Slavery.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 344 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The New Press, 2024.
- Contents:
- Prelude: the man who came back-W.P.A. interview with Jake McLeod (1936)
- "Feloniously inveigling" : a judgment on the kidnapping of doctor (1821)
- The Reverend Lowery's story based on facts (1911)
- "Speaks plausibly"-the Reverend and his runaway advertisement (1847)
- Henry Foreman's boarding house census report of 1850
- "A genuine article" : Harriet Beecher Stowe's letter to her sister (1850)
- Race : United States-the New Brunswick's census of 1851
- The experience of a slave in South Carolina by John Andrew Jackson (1862)
- The white preacher and the black slave lecturer (1865)
- "One thousand acres"-a letter to General Howard (1868)
- "Hard labor," court minutes from Surry County, North Carolina (1881).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781620978665 (electronic bk.)
- 1620978660 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40032416011
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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