Talk:Hannah Jackson

Is there more about Aaron Jackson?

Carlstak Thank you for looking and the helpful editing. It passed review, so it is set! The Hermitage site on Enslaved Families implies they were together after the Civil War, and the photograph suggests it too. But in the sources, Aaron's trail disappears. Reading the sources it sounds like the Hermitage has a great file on what happened to the people who served as Jackson's slaves, so maybe he can be tracked. My guess is he probably died before the interview with the Daily American interviewed her in the 1880s. But because Aaron worked outside rather than in the house, I doubt there is much about his story that will ever be told. Wtfiv (talk) 16:30, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

I think it is fascinating that the "Popular Culture" piece follows up nicely on your meditations about the potential issues with Jackson and his slaves on the Andrew Jackson talk page. This aspect of slave culture seems like it will inevitably come up because it appears so ubiquitous. It's interesting that it seems to me to be minimized in the discussion of slavery. There's a section in this article but I think a qualified editor needs to do a full article on it some day. Thank you again, for taking a look! Wtfiv (talk) 16:41, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

I think it's fascinating, too. Being a Southerner, so-called "miscegenation" is always one of the first things that comes to my mind when the subject is plantation owners, who were slavers almost by definition. It seems they had fluid mores when it came to exploitative sex with their female slaves. A former employee of mine had a rather uncommon surname very well known in the history of colonial Virginia since the 1600s. He's an attractive guy, and based on his features, I had wondered about his racial make-up, even though he had blue eyes and blonde hair (before he went mostly bald). I wasn't that surprised when he told me that there was a rumor in his family that they have a black ancestor. It has been my experience that this is not so unusual, and surprisingly, for the South, these memories seem to have been preserved down through the generations in some families, but I still think there are many white Southerners, even among white supremacists, who would be very surprised, and chagrined, to learn that they have black ancestors.;-) Carlstak (talk) 18:20, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

suggestion

Move title of article from Hannah Jackson (slave) to Hannah Jackson (enslaved person) ? jengod (talk) 19:36, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

PS awesome article thanks for this jengod (talk) 19:38, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks jengod I moved it. I totally agree, the new title emphasizes her personhood not the role inflicted on her. I'll update it in the link too so that future editors will see it written that way too. Wtfiv (talk) 23:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

October 2022

@Wtfiv: did you mean to revert my edit (the addition of category and the removal of a stray dot)? M.Bitton (talk) 00:52, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

oops. No! I'll fix. It got included in another reversion! Wtfiv (talk) 00:58, 13 October 2022 (UTC)