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 spark the Civil War. “A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin” unfolds as a stunning 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. Join us on Microsoft Teams: https://queenslib.org/4fMZ