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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: September 25, 2010
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Jackson viewed the enslaved as property... | Additional Description: Jackson viewed the enslaved as property, and as property, he wanted them as well cared for as his livestock and possessions.
But when I say I have concluded to retain you another year, it is on the express condition that you treat my negroes with humanity, & attention when sick; & not work them too hard, when well- that you feed & cloath then well, and that you carefully attend to my stock of all kinds, & particularity to my mares & colts…
-Andrew Jackson to Graves W. Steele, November 7, 1829
Submitted: February 9, 2012, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p192155
File Size: 0.172 Megabytes
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