A rchaeologists 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 ...

Andrew Jackson enslaved more than 150 people by the time of his death in 1845. They not only worked the fields but also ran the mansion and practiced skilled trades like blacksmithing and carpentry.

At the time of Jackson's death in 1845, 150 people were enslaved and worked at The Hermitage. When they died, like others held in slavery, they were kept out of formal cemeteries.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. Where they were laid to rest is ...

The legacy of slavery has always been entwined with the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson’s 1,000-acre Tennessee plantation.There, about ten miles north-east of downtown Nashville, remnants of the ...

The Hermitage in Nashville is the former plantation of Andrew Jackson. Antony-22 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0. Upon Andrew Jackson’s inauguration as the seventh president of the ...

The Andrew Jackson Foundation—owner and operator of The Hermitage plantation, the historic home of the seventh President of the United States—announced that experts believe they’ve located ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. But Jackson isn’t the only one ...

Andrew Jackson's tomb at his plantation, The Hermitage, is surrounded by other gravestones. (Image credit: Visions of America, LLC / Alamy Stock Photo) ...

NASHVILLE — At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Jackson between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. Where they were laid to rest is knowledge that ...

Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, ... By the time of Jackson's death in 1845, the plantation had grown to encompass more than 1,000 acres (405 hectares).