How can fiction bring forgotten stories to light when the historical record is incomplete? Jessica McCann explores how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and its companion work, A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, helped inspire her approach to researching and writing All Different Kinds of Free. Through the story of Margaret Morgan, McCann reflects on the power of historical fiction to document injustice, recover overlooked lives, and tell stories that need to be heard.