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Hannah Jackson (1792 or 1801 – 1895) was an African American woman who worked as a house slave for the seventh U.S. president Andrew Jackson and his wife Rachel. She was present at both their deaths. She was interviewed twice late in her life for her stories about Jackson and is thought to be the source of some of the stories told about his life.
Life of Andrew Jackson, Volume 3. New York, NY: Mason Brothers. p. 648. Remini, Robert V. (1981). Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom, 1822–1832. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8018-5913-7. Snelling, William Joseph (1831). A Brief and Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Andrew Jackson. Boston, MA ...
[29] [30] Less specific was a rumor of Jackson having "colored blood", meaning having "Negro" ancestry; [31] this rumor was unproven. President Jackson's father was born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, in current-day Northern Ireland, around 1738. [32] Scholars Hendrik Booraem, Robert Remini, and H. W. Brands have agreed he had no black ...
Rachel Jackson (née Donelson; June 15, 1767 – December 22, 1828) was the wife of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States. [1] [2] She lived with him at their home at the Hermitage, where she died just days after his election and before his inauguration in 1829—therefore she never served as first lady, a role assumed by her niece, Emily Donelson.
Seas of bright signs emblazoned with “Confirm KBJ” and “My Justice, she’s Black” have been erected as symbols of hope by Black women around the U.S. Capitol and in front of the Supreme ...
"Stop the Runaway. Fifty Dollars Reward." Andrew Jackson offered to pay extra for more violence (The Tennessee Gazette, October 3, 1804) In 1822, John Coffee offered a $50 reward for the return of Gilbert, who had run away from Jackson's plantation near present-day Tuscumbia, Alabama); Gilbert was killed by an overseer in 1827, which became a campaign issue in the 1828 presidential election [1]
Kamala Harris, the first Black woman in her role, just broke a record held by an outspoken slaveholder. ... who served from 1825 to 1832 under Presidents John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, when ...
In that singular moment, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke for countless Black women who have had to gather all the patience, strength and grace within to answer insinuating ...