"Old Hickory", who was born near Nashville, TN, was a slave owner..............a US General, and a President..........who used Indians to help him win the battle fo New Orleans in the war of 1812............and then, when President he forced the Cherokee, adn many others to leave to walk from NC, Georgia, and TN to Oklahoma, in the winter.................the Trail of Tears........yeah, great country............this place is an utter crock of shit...........

Slave traders were men of low reputation, even in the South. In the 1828 presidential election, candidate Andrew Jackson came under heavy attack as a slave trader who bought and sold slaves and moved them about in defiance of modern standards or morality. He was not attacked for merely owning slaves used in plantation work.^[60]

Treatment

Main article: Treatment of slaves in the United States

The treatment of slaves in the United States varied widely depending on conditions, times and places. Treatment was generally characterized by brutality, degradation, and inhumanity. Whippings, executions, and rapes were commonplace.^{[citation needed]} According to Adalberto Aguirre, there were 1,161 slaves executed in the U.S. between the 1790s and 1850s.^[61] Exceptions existed to virtually every generalization; for instance, there were slaves who employed white workers, slave doctors who treated upper-class white patients, and slaves who rented out their labor.^[62] After 1820, in response to the inability to import new slaves from Africa, some slaveholders improved the living conditions of their slaves, to influence them not to attempt escape.^[63]