Jennie Jackson was a Fisk Jubilee Singer, impresario, and folklorist. She was also the granddaughter of President Andrew Jackson's lifelong body servant. Jackson's mother was born a slave; her father, George, was also enslaved but died before her birth. Her mother was the beneficiary of a slaveholder's deathbed manumission, and because of this, Jackson was […]
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