Archaeologists have found 28 graves of people who were enslaved by Andrew Jackson at his Hermitage plantation in Tennessee. At the time of his presidency, from 1829 to 1837, Jackson enslaved 95 ...

Antony-22 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Upon Andrew Jackson’s inauguration as the seventh president of the United States in 1829, he owned 95 enslaved people and a sprawling ...

Researchers from the Andrew Jackson Foundation ... When inaugurated as president in 1829, Jackson owned 95 enslaved people. At the time of his death, in 1845, he owned 150. Jackson never freed ...

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The Andrew Jackson Foundation—owner and operator ... When he was inaugurated as president in 1829, Jackson owned 95 enslaved people, and by his death in 1845, he owned 150.

Smithson died in 1829, and six years later, President Andrew Jackson announced the bequest to Congress. On July 1, 1836, Congress accepted the legacy bequeathed to the nation and pledged the faith of ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old, joined the local militia as a patriot courier. At fifteen years of age, Jackson and his other brother, Robert, were captured by the British in 1781. Jackson’s face was ...

This discovery sheds light on the lives—and deaths—of at least 28 enslaved individuals who lived and labored on the Tennessee estate.

Born: March 15, 1767, in Waxhaw, South Carolina... Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made American man, and his populist appeal lay in his message of inclusion against what he characterized ...