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Susanna Ashton is a scholar of literature and testament and works as an expert on contested authorship of slavery or freedom narratives. From 2021-2022, she was a W.E.B. DuBois Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, has held a Fulbright to Ireland, has held a research fellowship with Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance. In 2023, she was co-director of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Reconstructing the Black Archive (along with Kaniqua Robinson, Rhondda R, Thomas and Gregg Hecimovich). Other notable national awards include an American Printing History Association fellowship, the William Dean Howells Fellowship at Harvard University’s Houghton Library at Harvard, a Woodruff Library research fellowship in African American Studies at Emory University, a Cushwa Center Award from the University of Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of American Catholicism, and a research award for the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina. She was also a Twain scholar-in-residence with the Mark Twain Center in Elmira, New York. Susanna Ashton is the author of _Collaborators in Literary America, 1820-1920_, and co-editor of various collections, including _“I was Born in South Carolina,” South Carolina Slave Narratives_; (with Rhondda R. Thomas) _The South Carolina Roots of African American Thought; (with Tom Lutz) _These ‘Colored’ United States_; (with William Hardwig) _Approaches to Teaching Charles W. Chesnutt_; and Samuel Williams’ autobiography _“Before the War and After the Union.”_ She has additionally authored chapters and articles in dozens of journals and magazines Her most recent book is John Andrew Jackson, _A Plausible Man. The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin_ (NY: The New Press, 2024.
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    • The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin
    • Written by: Susanna Ashton
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2024-08-06
    • Language: English
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