You Do Not Learn This In School
We hope you’ve learned more about Thomas Jefferson since then. We seriously doubt that these events were covered in your history textbooks. He was a slave owner himself, despite calling slavery an “assemblage of horrors.” Unfortunately, he was not the last president to hold the position. Who are the rest of them? Andrew Jackson, James Madison, and James Monroe are among them. Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, owned only one slave. Later on, he joined the anti-slavery movement.
You Do Not Learn This In School
The Last Presidents To Be Slave Owners
Although William Henry Harrison inherited a few slaves, he did not have any during his presidency. This was significant because he had been president for 31 years. We have John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and James Polk on the other hand. During their terms, they all owned slaves. The last presidents to have slaves were Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, in 1863. More than 3 million slaves were freed as a result of it. Slavery was finally abolished two years later when the 13th Amendment was enacted.
The Last Presidents To Be Slave Owners