Burials of 28 people Andrew Jackson enslaved found at his Hermitage plantation in Tennessee
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 people, and for nearly a century, more than 300 people were enslaved by the Jackson family. “It is historically significant, after decades of […]