Andrew Jackson's "The Hermitage"

In July, 2009, I visited the home of President Andrew Jackson, just outside Nashville, Tennessee. Here is a short video I complied of my visit.

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• Andrew
• Jackson
• Tennessee
• Nashville
• plantation
• history
• president
• tour

[TheJbach]

We can't help what took place in the past. Each one has to try his best to do right today. Life was hard for folks then, and its hard still. Try always to keep those spirits up! Slavery exists today as in many previous centuries worldover, and for virtually every race, don't you know? Anyhow, great show StLinus!! Been there myself. Had a splendid 3 days in early October, before all those giant trees came down in a storm! Beautiful time. The docent and I almost alone. (Excepting Andy)!

[Wilderthan75]

Wish the fact of it being a plantation was handled better. Albert is held up as a model slave for a reason -- because he stayed with his former slave owner after Emancipation, suggesting that slavery was somehow a benign, unobjectionable system. It's upsetting how The Hermitage tries to whitewash this distrubing - and central -- aspect of its history. And it's upsetting to see it show up in your video with a backdrop of happy, upbeat music.

[ProjectRedfoot]

that was like boring but like interesting alltogether

[EBanonymous]

00:18 "cotton farm"? You mean SLAVE plantation where hundreds of blacks worked to make this man rich. Land that he took form Native American tribes that he had no problem destroying, such as in the War of 1812.

You're looking at the fields where blacks were betan, raped, whipped & tortured - and buried - just like they were on any other plantation. Going there is like visiting a Nazi concentration work camp, because that white supremacist did the same things. Thanks for posting this though.

[naomigd1]

they restrict phot's due to theft, I volunteer

at an historical home on Long Island

and this is due to light fingered people, who don't respect OUR HISTORY

[harlyd007]

Nice!