Inside the Home of Andrew Jackson | History Traveler Episode 65 

Indoctrination in our schools. Meant to incite division. I was enjoying this channel til indoctrination came into play

Definitely American. We have a complex history, all of which is important to learn from.

There are no native american. They were immigrants like everyone else so it is a LIE you are pushing.

If there are no Native Americans, then nobody is native to ANY land in the world as we all came from somewhere. However, Native Americans were the FIRST on this land. I’m Native American. We traveled here years before anyone else tried to claim this land - that’s the point. Not that I care so much, but don’t deny it. It’s annoying and ignorant.

Anyone born here is a native.

You may label my ancestors as you like. Perhaps “Indian” would be more to your liking. But you clearly missed the point of my comment. My rhetorical question was to suggest exactly that: we are ALL American.😀

I went n I'm Walker n wheel chair. And its gorgeous n had good book from shop....kernel James Raulston family of mine is buried. N he fought with colonel Jackson n stayed at stagecoach n and areas n depots..dirt roads n rock roads n mines. president jackson fought in war together into war around Bridgeport Russell cave n surrounds our river area dates n wars. Trail of tears... lived in HISTORY on farm area of coal mines towns caves n natives n HISTORY . Our reenactments of civil war n cornbread festival. And kayak areas down all HISTORY river areas.

Thanks! I really do appreciate that. As long as people are learning, I’m happy 🙂

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Jackson was directly responsible for killing over 10,000 innocent Native Americans on a series of "Trails of Tears," following his theft of all of their homelands, comprising over 100 million acres. Thousands more Native people died during his invasions of their lands in Alabama, Georgia and Florida. If you place him in the top 5, I'd hate to see who you place at the bottom.

I think Andrew Jackson had a moment of clarity after he and the others accomplished Founding America. I think he thought about how grave the sin was of taking Freedom Energy from the people who lived with them and decided for posterity to dress that history as well as possible to avoid most of the Gravity their actions. Which is why history says they treated their slaves so well. To hide the Gravity of their actions. This was hard for me to see for a few hours. This is manipulative with foresight. I think accepting reality was issue for Andrew Jackson and he refused to admit the reality of Freedom after death and buried his slave right next to him. That slave should be buried wherever he is Free.

Many Cherokee died at his hands.

He was a monster that showed some occasional pragmatism and kindness. During the slaughter of the Creek he found an orphaned boy and took him home and 'adopted' him as a son. I think of the boy almost as a 'pet' for Rachel. He was pretty sad that they never had children. The boy died of disease at some point. Very complex.

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He never set his slaves free so he wasn't that kind to them either...he was a horrible man.

Jackson could be a psychopath or a nice guy. "Uncle" Alfred, as mentioned, was extremely treasured by the family, having his wedding reception in the mansion. Jackson's slave Hannah referred to him as being kind and like a father to her. (Looking at her picture, I've wondered if he WAS her father- she was among the first that he bought, that when she was a little girl.) She despised his daughter-in-law, so much that at 70 she ran away from The Hermitage, where she'd lived since she was a little girl and had relatively light duties to her age and status, and went to work as a laundress for the Union Army occupying Nashville. She never returned to the Hermitage, but did continue to speak kindly of Jackson in interviews (though she could have been telling interviewers what they wanted to hear). Jackson also had a slave named Tom who ran away in 1804. Jackson offered not only a reward for his capture but ALSO an extra $10 for every 100 lashes the slave was given. (100 lashes could VERY easily have resulted in death for even the healthiest person.) He also told his overseer to physically discipline a female slave for back talking one of the white women in the house. As mentioned he killed many Cherokee and even more Creeks. No exoneration at all for this, but will add that some Cherokees had blood on their hands as well: Cherokee also killed many Creeks; they in fact crossed the river in canoe and torched the village, burning many Creeks alive at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. Many Creeks also fought alongside Jackson, and when he demanded the cession of 2/3 of the Creek territory he made no distinction or allowances for their loyalty: they were as likely to have their land taken as Creeks who had fought against the whites. Ditto to the Cherokee allies- it did not save the ones who aided the U.S. from the completely illegal land seizure and Trail of Tears two decades later. And yet at that, while he didn't shy from horribly abusing runaway slaves or killing native men, women, and children, he did not particularly hate them. (He may have thought them inferior, but did not hate them.) He DID hate the English, and would kill them for any or no provocation. He outright murdered two English civilians in his (unlawful) invasion of Florida on the most trumped up of charges- their real crime was being English. Pretty much every Englishman he was countered was made to answer for the crimes of the officer who slashed his face when he was a boy and for the ones who led to the deaths of his brothers and his mother during the war. He also killed white men in duels, most famously Charles Dickinson, so at least he was an equal opportunity killer. Yet the most amazing thing is that he was- by leaps and bounds and without even a close second- the single most popular U.S. president during his own lifetime and for many years afterward.

I love that book as well. Did you know Irving stone also wrote one about Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln.

I live in NC just over SC line my house is on the corner of Andrew Jackson Highway.

Michaelraine2268 So why on earth would Russia send urns to Pres Jackson ? Were they planning an earlier death or what! I would b insulted to receive a gift like that! Oh well it really served no useful purpose except for being ostentacious!

Thank you for that information. That's some cool stuff. I'm going to visit in August. Hopefully.

I want that pistol in my collection

Don’t we all wish we could get land for 10 cents an acre nowadays.

Jackson acquired the money to buy the Hermitage land by joining with his partners in buying up the land where Memphis now lies, immediately following Jackson's negotiating a treaty with the Chickasaw tribe that led to the US Govt.'s acquisition of that land. Jackson and his partners parceled up the land, and sold the parcels for a mint, where Memphis would be built. "Conflict of interest" hardly begins to describe their dirty dealings.

It it nice.

My maternal great grandmother was Elizabeth Taylor of the Virginia Taylors. We were always told we were related to Zachary Taylor.

@@redriveral2764 I have a genealogy record of Taylor descendants on my grandmothers side of our family 🤗💕 have a blessed day

Thanks! I really do appreciate that.

Back then our parents would take us to learn anything up and down coast if going to see family. One battlefield I saw huge trees. Inside museum was a photo of the newly planted trees by the soldiers. It felt like a way to touch history. I'm so glad I hadn't the spoils and conveniences of today to numb learning in person or see things behind my phone in my face as if not engaged in the present. That's lost to us now.

Teresa eads I find the hermitage and it’s treatment of African Americans and their ancestors to be abhorrent and a stain on the history of the republic. So forgive me my being offended by your love for it.

Andrew Jackson is worse than pol pot and saddam hussein and Christopher colombus in his treatment of the genocide of the American Indian in the trail of tears. His blatant killing of weakened and impoverished American Indians is a genocide seeing a bible in his study makes one wonder why a Christian man like that would such a deprived indifference to humanity His treatment of his slaves as free household help equally abhorrent. This man was a Hitler of the mid 1800s.

Cry me a river.

Oh wow. Thanks for the heads up!

The History Underground I work nearby a few times a year and took a look in January, I’ve got photos if you need to look

That is where my 6th great grandfather was born. He emigrated her in the late 1760's or early 1770's.

Rose dowling that’s only 12 miles and a half hour drive away, you can actually see the Harland and Wolf cranes from the Jackson house 👍

Well said. I definitely plan on getting to those places as well.

I couldn't believe how large his tomb was inside!

It’s not such thing with this. It’s no good or bad. This president was a racist and, bigot and rapist

Slavery still is here in America.

@@acwashingtonsr right!

Oh wow. Didn’t know that. Thanks!

@@TheHistoryUnderground Johnny Cash lived on the south side of the lake in Hendersonville. I love that area. Be well my friend.

Roy Orbison lived next to Johnny Cash in a house that burned down. A lot of history on that road.

@@waynecastleman1363 two of roys sons died in that fire :(

@@agurobe Yes and if I'm not mistaken he moved into another house up the same street that may have also burned.

Glad that you enjoyed it!

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Glad you enjoyed it

It is closer than an hour from Nashville. It is actually probably 15 minutes or so

The slaves quarters with wooden floors and furniture is much nicer than the tents the homeless live in all over America today.

Glad it was helpful! Definitely worth the stop.

He was certainly a complex man.

Did you notice his gravestone says "servant" not "slave"?

I think it's a little too easy to romanticize their relationship, especially when their relationship is not all that remarkable. As Jackson's property, it was in Alfred's best interest to serve his master faithfully. Consider the lives of all of the other slaves Jackson owned who did not receive the same favor and privleges.

Kathleen Amatangelo If he died after Emancipation, he was no longer a slave when he died, so rightly “servant” was on the stone.

if you grew up in ONLY ONE place ALL your life AND you can't read or write because if you even TRY ur getting the Dog Shit BEAT! out of you AND you have no money ...I mean ZERO like ABSOLUTELY NOTHING after working HARD literally ALL your life... please help me understand where would you go?... how many options do you have? you family...children included...has been SOLD to the highest bidder so that's not an option...so please please please tell me where was he supposed to go and what was he supposed to do

I think that they've opened back up. Definitely worth the visit. I've got a few videos on the Battle of Franklin that you might like as well.

I've seen George Washington's home (Mt. Vernon), Thos. Jefferson's home (Monticello), John Adams' home (Peacefield), James Garfields' home, Andrew Jackson's home (The Hermitage), James Polk's home, Andrew Johnson's home, and the Herbert Hoover Library - All fascinating monuments to not only these persons of high office.. but of a snapshot of our nation's history. Good bad or indifferent.. they Happened.. and we can learn from them. We must learn from them.

Thanks! Glad that you enjoyed it.

Robert Phillips - Pretty amazing place to see.

It MUST be pulled down.

Jonothan Doezer - Better idea. Let’s leave it up and learn from it 😉

@@TheHistoryUnderground Of course! Yes I do see your point! It should rather be turned into a Slavery Museum! People can come there to learn about the evils of post-colonial slavery. Outside could be an extensive exhibit showing how slaves lived out their lives in drafty and confining hovels. And pains should be taken to demonstrate the stark difference in living conditions between the lavish dwelling of the Master and lowly station of his human property. Outside in the courtyard. I envision a larger-than-life statue of Andrew Jackson himself whipping a female slave! A large bronze image with Jackson sneering, yet clearly enjoying the ordeal as the slave cowers on her knees from the sharp blows of the bullwhip! I agree with you completely! This sort of educational approach could be much more *strategic* than simply destroying the site of the atrocities! School children could be brought to the museum for field trips and class visits. I believe that this tact has already been done in Europe with the Concentration Camp sites. It is much more effective to use the history in this way. An excellent idea, sir. Thank you for suggesting it!

@@jonothandoeser it is high time we all stop apologizing for the past of our country, no matter what went on in our country is no one's fault today end of it!!!

Nancy Wood Yes, everything should be taught accurately.

Absolutely! It’s a crime that it’s not.

Jackson...a noble president? He was truly one of the worst. They should be teaching our children all about his "Indian Removal policy," including his theft of over 100,000,000 acres of Native American land, and his sending over 10,000 Native people to their deaths on a series of "Trails of Tears."

@Nancy Wood, they should teach about the Trail of Tears! He wasn't that great of a man.

Oh wow. Thanks for the extra information. That's part of why I enjoy doing this channel. I'm always learning something new. Thanks!

So interesting! Thank you.

I don’t know how I’d feel about selling off federal land. I’d definitely support getting the spending under control though.

@@TheHistoryUnderground I would not support selling public lands because it belongs to the people and for all generations too come.Also we see how oil and coal mining,buildings destroys land,lakes and rivers our natural beauty of the country.

​@@memphismemphis462true, but we all sure love to travel, don't we?

Thanks for watching! Glad that you are enjoying them. I seem to appreciate it more as I get older as well.

When were we united?

@@janetpercell3989 the quick answer is WW2. It took a country that was completely United or we would all be talking German or likely Japanese… or even more likely dead. In any of the above cases, you would not be alive or have the freedom to ask this question. Thank a Vet.

The Jackson vs. Adams election bitterly divided the nation! As badly as Trump vs. Clinton, and along the same lines. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1828_United_States_presidential_election

@ Janet Purcell: after the War of 1812,the Revolutionary War, WW1 & I I, 911....

Interesting. Jackson did have an adopted Cherokee son. I wonder if that's where the connection is.

@@TheHistoryUnderground, Jackson's adopted son was a Creek boy (Lincoya), and Lincoya died of tuberculosis before he married or bore children. Jackson himself never had children, so his only blood relatives were in Ireland.

​@@johngalt8279he had a grand daughter.

​@@TheHistoryUndergroundcould this adopted son have been his own? Being a soldier, I'm sure he got lonely.

Awesome! Thank you so much. That really does mean more to me than you know.

Why call it the hermitrage?

Thank you! Very wise words

Julia Anne Grider - Thanks. Unfortunately I was limited by time and couldn’t see everything. Definitely hope to go back someday.

Same

For some reason I love to see the kitchen areas. When you think about what they had to do to prepare a meal and for so many it really Peaks my interest

The kitchen isn't in the house. You step outside at the back of the house and the kitchen is a whole other building. It's pretty cool.

You can visit thehermitage.com where it will show room by room with photos, including the kitchen.

Patricia Stockdale - No disrespect intended. I had this same issue come up with my Arlington videos so I actually called them to make sure that I wasn’t breaching any cemetery etiquette. What they told me was that it was perfectly fine unless you are attended a funeral. I see where you are coming from though. Hope that you enjoyed the video anyway. Thanks for watching! 🙂

The History Underground Yes, thank you! And thanks for that helpful information! I didn’t know!!!

@@patriciastockdale197 used to be your hat came off whenever you went inside anywhere , it was just respectful.

I thought the same...cap off inside...thank you for the upload... enjoyed it.

Interesting

jefferson is my favorite and his house montecello is stunning..even as a kid i was fascinated by his house.

They were shut down because of the pandemic and were very generous with their time and access so that I could share a lot of what they have with you all. I was very grateful for the experience.

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I know. That was one of my favorite pieces.

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Wow, thank you! And thanks for watching.

All old houses smell different.

Just curious why? Jackson is the one who forced the Native Americans to walk the Trail of Tears. My ancestors, the Cherokee, were apart of that. Jackson may have been a territorial governor of Florida, but hes not well liked by some of us Floridians

@@julieblount5674 he also was a mass murderer who stole a baby from a native family that he killed and raised as his own. He was a monster who enjoyed killing and stealing land.

@@Old188 yes thank you.

@D.B. I don’t think that’s what they meant. I also don’t think you can judge someone for what someone’s ancestors did. If we did that nothing would get done. Everyone’s ancestors have done something horrible.

@D.B. I don't know where you got your info from. You are partially right. Yes they were slave owners...equal among the 5 main tribes. Yes, I'm against slavery of any sort and there is no good validation for it. Many from all tribes, plus the African Americans were forced to march on the trail. You asked about the Indians that killed? Europeans forced Indians off their lands and kept forcing them west and promising stuff and you don't expect the Indians to retaliate? Indians and African Americans were killed, their villages were attacked for no reason other than the fact of their ancestry. I'm proud of who I am. I'm sure you have ghosts in your closet as well. I have German ancestry as well, bit that does not make me a Nazi, nor a supporter of Hitler or Kaiser Wilhelm. I am a supporter of Israel and proud of it.

It’s definitely worth the visit.

That is awesome! Thanks.

@Live Life can't comment. It was too long ago. Looking backwards and judging people and their actions from our present perspective is not a just thing. We are too far away and too removed from the events. Judging by what the Cherokees did to each other after the removal just goes to show the nature of people. An old history professor of mine pretty much summed things up: "it all depends on whose ox is gored."

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There was no indoor plumbing at this time, so there were no bathrooms. I think that I showed every room in the house with the exception of two bedrooms. The kitchen would have been outside, but it was locked up.

Awesome! So glad that you enjoyed it 🙂

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Wow, thanks! Appreciate that. Hope this can be used by some other history teachers in the future.

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Thanks! It’s definitely worth the visit.