Enslaved farmhand John Andrew Jackson fled a plantation in Sumter County by riding a horse along the roads towards Charleston. This brazen escape happened in 1846, as he fled on Christmas Day by ...

SMYTH COUNTY, Va. (WCYB) — Mike Sage, the pastor at Freedom Tabernacle Baptist Church in Atkins, Virginia, said he read "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and decided he wanted to share the story with others. “I did ...

When you need to escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life, there’s a rugged hideaway where the Tahoe and Eldorado National Forests meet — a place where you can truly unplug. That place is Uncle ...

A few weeks after Harriet Beecher Stowe crossed paths with John Andrew Jackson, she began drafting Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was ...

Consider the phrase “Uncle Tom”. In Beecher Stowe’s book, he was a hero. What changed? What do you think of when you hear the phrase “Uncle Tom?” On March 28, 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe published the ...

In Waukegan, Ill. last week, a stage show started on its rounds billed as Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Swing. The swing was all there, in a noisy, nickel-in-the-slot sort of way; but Uncle Tom’s Cabin was not ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A project is underway in Mandarin to create the first-of-its-kind life-size sculptor of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the nineteenth-century author known for her book Uncle Tom’s Cabin, ...

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