who wasn’t able to have biological children with Rachel, brought several white wards into his family over the years, including Andrew Jackson Jr., a nephew on Rachel’s side whose parents gave ...

They had already adopted or taken in several children, including Rachel’s nephew, Andrew Jackson Jr. Now Jackson was taking in this baby whose parents had been killed by his own orders.

The momentous remembrance — deemed “Jackson Day” in honor of President Andrew Jackson, who was then-credited with a victory in the decisive fight — had been declared a holiday by both ...

This is where several men, women, and children who were enslaved are buried ... enslaved to make sure they're not forgotten. The Andrew Jackson's Hermitage Foundation offers tours built around ...

Upon Andrew Jackson’s inauguration as the seventh ... He and his family owned more than 300 enslaved men, women and children from 1788 to the end of the Civil War in 1865.