Escaped Lynchburg slave inspires book
BY IVY MOORE
ivym@theitem.com
Posted 2/2/14
John Andrew Jackson's life story reads like a novel or a Hollywood movie. The man who was "enslaved on a Lynchburg plantation ... escaped and made his way north ... traveled around Europe lecturing on abolition and his experiences in South Carolina" …
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