It just happens that there has been some talk of late about President Andrew Jackson due to the comments by Donald Trump indicating that Jackson was a favorite president of his. Trump, of course, claimed that Jackson would have somehow stopped the Civil War from happening. "he would have worked it out" said the donald. The fact that Jackson died some 15 years before the Civil War broke out didn't seem to bother Trump.
In a Virginia paper recently there was a article about Presidents Jackson and Jefferson being slave owners and some slave ads that appeared for runaway slaves of theirs. Jackson's ad stated that he would pay $50 for the return of a runaway and an "...extra $ 10 for every hundred lashes andy person will give him, to the amount of three hundred". Jefferson's ad noted the runaway by name and age and the fact that he was corpulent.
(Source: "Cataloging cruel ads to hunt runaway slaves" by Doneen Brown of the Washington Post. In The Virginian Pilot on April 12, 2017.)
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