Andrew Jackson: Slavery

 



Born on March 15th 1767, Andrew Jackson was born in Waxhaw, south Carolina. Growing up he lived on a plantation with over a hundred slaves. Leading a life of mischief and sorrow for a while after several family members passing away, he would then become the 7th president of the united states from 1829-1837. Prior to this he was a solider and a general in the U.S army. He Grew up being for pro slavery. Unlike the north witch was more against slavery the states in the south, believed and fought to keep slavery long and hard. 

During his lifetime he went from being poor to extremely wealthy and this is because of slavery. Jackson immensely profited off slavery making him even more pro slavery. In his lifetime he will have owned 161 slaves to work him, in the white house and his actual home. Although they made him rich is does not explain what he did and how he treated his slaves. He would brutally whip and beat them, along with public whipping of women. When runaway slaves were discovered he would put them in chains and keep them there, while he would beat them. When anti-slavery movements began to rise Jackson would quickly try to shut them down with his precedency. He called “anti- slavery advocates monsters, ““atone for this wicked attempt with their lives”. 



    President Andrew Jackson didn’t just treat black people horribly, and view so little of them, but he as well though very little and treated native Americans horribly. Jackson enslaved and harshly treated those who had been enslaved. He harshly treated Native Americans whom he forced for their lands, while he was trying to accomplish westward expansion. He believed they were inferior to the white man, and treated the native Americans very cruelty with no mercy while kicking them off their tribal lands.





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