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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: September 25, 2010
Caption: Jackson’s enslaved cook, Betty, and her great-grandchildren.
Additional Description: This photograph is believed to be Jackson’s enslaved cook, Betty, and her great-grandchildren. Jackson purchased Betty as a child in 1794, and she lived nearly her entire life in slave cabins at The Hermitage. Betty’s children were likely born in the log kitchen.
Submitted: February 10, 2012, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p192318
File Size: 0.246 Megabytes

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