Andrew Jackson and slavery

Andrew Jackson, the seventh U.S. president, was a slave owner and slave trader who demonstrated a lifelong passion for the legal ownership and exploitation of enslaved black Americans. Unlike Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, Jackson "never questioned the morality of slavery." Existing records show that Jackson and his immediate heirs owned 325 enslaved people between 1788 and 1865. Jackson personally owned 95 people when he was first sworn in as U.S. president and 150 at the time of his death in 1845. Only 0.1% of white southern families owned 100 or more slaves at the time of the American Civil War.