FOCUS: Harvey Wasserman | Let's Be Clear About Andrew Jackson (and Lord Jeffery Amherst)
Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News
Wasserman writes: "A vicious racist, Jackson made a fortune in the slave trade, and from stolen Indian land, leaving him with a slave plantation of his own. At the 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Jackson enlisted Cherokee warriors to fight their rival Creeks. Then he brutalized his 'allies' as well as his defeated enemy. His troops took slices of the dead Creeks' noses for a body count, and used their skin to make bridles. Jackson's defining document is his 1830 Indian Removal Act, demanding that all native peoples be moved west of the Mississippi."
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Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News
Wasserman writes: "A vicious racist, Jackson made a fortune in the slave trade, and from stolen Indian land, leaving him with a slave plantation of his own. At the 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Jackson enlisted Cherokee warriors to fight their rival Creeks. Then he brutalized his 'allies' as well as his defeated enemy. His troops took slices of the dead Creeks' noses for a body count, and used their skin to make bridles. Jackson's defining document is his 1830 Indian Removal Act, demanding that all native peoples be moved west of the Mississippi."
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