After the White House, Jackson returned to the Hermitage, his Tennessee plantation, where his health declined. On June 8, 1845, at age 78, Jackson died.

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 ...

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 ...

Jackson also owned a plantation and enslaved people of African descent. He sold some, breaking up families, and brought a number of them to work in the White House.

Upon Andrew Jackson’s inauguration as the seventh president of the United States in 1829, he owned 95 enslaved people and a sprawling plantation in Nashville named “the Hermitage.” ...

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 ...

Complication No. 3: People who were enslaved by Jackson stayed at The Hermitage for years after emancipation, and a number of them are not on Find a Grave or in Tennessee death records.

In 1804, Jackson purchased 425 acres (172 hectares) of land in Nashville and named the property The Hermitage. By the time of Jackson's death in 1845, the plantation had grown to encompass more ...

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

Enslaved People’s Graves Discovered at Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage The burial ground at the former American president’s home in Nashville is the latest to be discovered at a presidential site.

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.