Andrew Jackson and slavery

Not to be confused with Andrew Johnson and slavery.
Landmark called "Andrew Jackson" along the Mississippi River in Coahoma County, Mississippi in 1863 was Halcyon, bought for Jackson's son Andrew Jackson Jr.
"Stop the Runaway. Fifty Dollars Reward." Andrew Jackson offered to pay extra for more violence (The Tennessee Gazette, October 3, 1804)
In 1822, John Coffee offered a $50 reward for the return of Gilbert, who had run away from Jackson's plantation near present-day Tuscumbia, Alabama); Gilbert was killed by an overseer in 1827, which became a campaign issue in the 1828 presidential election[1]

Andrew Jackson, the seventh U.S. president, was a slave owner and slave trader who demonstrated a lifelong passion for the legal ownership and exploitation of enslaved black Americans. Unlike Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, Jackson "never questioned the morality of slavery."[2]

  1. ^ "Domestic". Richmond Enquirer. 1828-09-09. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-08-29.
  2. ^ Warshauer, Matthew (2006). "Andrew Jackson: Chivalric Slave Master". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 65 (3): 203–229. ISSN 0040-3261.