Susanna Ashton

Susanna Ashton teaches at Clemson University in South Carolina. A former Fellow at both Yale and Harvard as well as a Fulbright scholar, her work has appeared in both scholarly and popular venues, usually chewing on ideas about paperwork, archives, and 19th-century freedoms. Her series on fugitivity and runaways can be found here: The Runaway Chronicles. Learn more at www.SusannaAshton.com. She is the author of A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin (NY: The New Press, 2024)