Archaeologists have found 28 graves of people who were enslaved by Andrew ... Jackson enslaved 95 people, and for nearly a century, more than 300 people were enslaved by the Jackson family.

Andrew, then thirteen years old ... Soon after the death of his brother, Jackson’s mother died of cholera and Jackson was orphaned at the age of 14. The deaths of his family members led to his ...

In what is today known as the Trail of Tears, members of the Cherokee Nation were rounded up and transplanted westward by military force in 1838 under Jackson’s successor Martin Van Buren. Legacy In ...