Zachary Taylor and slavery

"General Taylor's Plantation" probably depicted 1840s, from Das illustrirte Mississippithal by Henry Lewis (SIUE Digital)
Henry Hawkins (1819–1917) accompanied Taylor on his Mexican-American War campaigns ("Former slave of General Zachary Taylor dies" Natchez Democrat, July 6, 1917)
Map from 1866 showing Cypress Grove Plantation along the Mississippi River as "Genl. Taylors Old Place"

Zachary Taylor, the 12th U.S. president (from 1849 to 1850), owned slaves throughout his life. As President, he generally resisted attempts to expand slavery in the territories and opposed the Compromise of 1850.