Английская Википедия:Hannah Jackson
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Hannah Jackson (1792 or 1801 – 1895) was an African American household slave of seventh U.S. President Andrew Jackson and his wife Rachel. She was present at both their deaths. She was interviewed twice late in her life for her stories about Jackson and is thought to be the source of some of the stories told about his life.
Life
The year of Hannah's birth is uncertain. It has been given as either 1792Шаблон:Sfn or 1801.Шаблон:Sfn She became Jackson's slave around 1808.Шаблон:Sfn According to an 1894 interview with Hannah by the Nashville newspaper, Daily American, she stated that Jackson received her as payment from a client for legal services.Шаблон:Sfn In her interviews, Hannah recounts many positive actions by Jackson, saying that he was very kind to her and the other enslaved African Americans. He would occasionally buy her gifts, including a red dress.Шаблон:Sfn She also stated that Jackson did not want to split up slave families and would try to keep them together.Шаблон:Sfn The Daily American also implies that Hannah may be a source for the story that Jackson was slashed by a British officer when he was a child.Шаблон:Sfn
In 1817, she married Aaron, a slave who worked as a blacksmith. They had ten children together,Шаблон:Sfn all of whom lived to adulthood.Шаблон:Sfn They were married in the Jackson's dining room in the Hermitage.Шаблон:Sfn By mid-1820 Hannah had become the head household servant,Шаблон:Sfn known as "House Hannah",Шаблон:Sfn as there were at least three other slaves called Hannah on the plantation.Шаблон:Sfn She became personal servant to Rachel JacksonШаблон:Sfn and was present when Rachel was struck ill. According to Hannah, she was alone with Rachel when she died, holding Rachel's head on her shoulder.Шаблон:Sfn It is thought that Hannah is one of the servants who served Jackson in the White House, as the presence of a slave named Hannah was mentioned by Jackson's friend William B. Lewis.Шаблон:Sfn
When Jackson was dying, Hannah was one of the people beside his death bed to hear his final words. According to James Parton, who one of Jackson's first biographers and interviewed Hannah about Jackson's death, he said, "Be good children, and we will all meet in heaven".Шаблон:Sfn According to the Daily American interview, Hannah quotes him as saying, “I hope to meet you all in Heaven, both black and white".Шаблон:Sfn In his will, Jackson bequeathed Hannah and her two daughters, Charlotte and Mary, to Sarah Yorke Jackson, the wife of Jackson's adopted son, Andrew Jackson Jr.Шаблон:Sfn Little is known of Hannah's life until 1863, when Hannah escaped to Union forces after Sarah complained about her becoming insolent.Шаблон:Sfn Later, one of Jackson's grandchildren complained that Hannah had abandoned the Hermitage, and now was earning $20 a month.Шаблон:Sfn After emancipation, she took the surname "Jackson".Шаблон:Sfn When she was interviewed by W. G. Terrell for the Cincinnati newspaper, Commercial Gazette in 1880,Шаблон:Sfn she was living with three of her children in Nashville, where she died in 1895.Шаблон:Sfn
In popular culture
In 2007, Dorothy Price-Haskins wrote a historical fiction novel called Unholiest Patrimony: "The Truth is Great and It Must Prevail.Шаблон:Sfnm The work is presented as a "novel based on fact" that presents Andrew Jackson as having a sexual relationship with Hannah, resulting in a daughter, Charlotte. According to Price-Haskins, the novel is based on a journal by Charlotte that remains in private hands. Jackson was not accused of having sex with his slaves during his lifetime and there is no DNA evidence that Jackson had children with slaves;Шаблон:Sfn but the novel highlights that exploitation was always a possibility in a slave-owning household. For example, Hannah told a story about one visitor who would use a slave woman for sexual pleasure while staying at the Hermitage; although Rachel was enraged, Jackson would plead obliviousness.Шаблон:Sfn
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