Searching for the Elusive Man Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin

The New Republic acclaims A Plausible Man as ““In reconstructing a life that included so many wild twists and turns, drawing on sources drenched alternately in their recordkeepers’ racism and the protagonist’s self-mythologization, Ashton has accomplished something remarkable, a feat of historical excavation.”

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