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Andrew Jackson and slavery

Not to be confused with Andrew Johnson and slavery.
"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] Existing records show that Jackson and his immediate heirs owned 325 enslaved people between 1788 and 1865.[3] Jackson personally owned 95 people when he was first sworn in as U.S. president and 150 at the time of his death in 1845.[3] Only 0.1% of white southern families owned 100 or more slaves at the time of the American Civil War.[4]

  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.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Pessen (1984), pp. 64–65.

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