Women

New Deal artists

California

Water

Historical geography

Andrew Jackson and frienemies

Some admirer of the General's in Arkansas had sent him a live bear cub as a token of his esteem, and for a while the animal was kept on the front lawn of the Hermitage tied to one of the big holly trees. When Houston came to town Jackson decided that the bear should be a sacrifice to the distinguished visitor, and so the political leaders and neighbors were invited to come and partake of the bear-meat dinner.[1]

That is the quintessence of the slave doctrine; labor degraded, the laborer degraded, money exalted, and the owner of property exalted.

— John Bolles, Boston Semi-Weekly Republican, September 9, 1848, via Schlesinger's The Age of Jackson (1945)

American slavery

19th-century American slave traders

  1. William G. Ponder, Ephraim G. Ponder, James Ponder, and John G. Ponder
  2. Edward Stone
  3. N. C. Trowbridge ✅ - slave trading and piracy, plus bonus treason convictions!
  4. John D. James, Thomas G. James, and David D. James
  5. E. H. Simmons
  6. N. A. McNairy
  7. A. J. Orr and D. W. Orr
  8. John W. Lindsey
  9. Rowan & Harris
  10. Sowell Woolfolk
  11. John W. Anderson (slave trader) ✅ - Chief Justice Marshall was an investor
  12. Matthew Garrison (slave trader)
  13. John T. Hatcher
  14. John M. Gilchrist
  15. Jilson Dove
  16. Washington Robey
  17. Josiah Maples
  18. Forrest & Maples
  19. William Harker (slave trader)
  20. C. F. Hatcher
  21. C. M. Rutherford
  22. Elihu Creswell ✅ - grandson of U.S. Senator
  23. Henry F. Slatter 🌱 ✅
  24. James F. Purvis

Assorted Americana

Food

MISCELLANY: Stubs and starts and assorted bios 🌱🌱🌱

  1. ^ "The Hermitage, home of Old Hickory, by Stanley F. Horn". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
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