Was Jackson even a slaveowner? I know he held a position as a teacher at a military school in Virginia (I believe that school was a predecssor to VMI). I was not aware that he even owned any land or a plantation.
Obviously, another historical fact that escapes race baiters: most of the people who fought on the Confederate side of the war were NOT slave owners, mainly because slaveowners were in the minority, and slaveowners were largely exempted from Confederate conscription laws passed as the war went on (mostly because leaders feared large numbers of increasingly rebellious slaves being held on planatations where there was no male presence to keep order).
Yes. He was a slave owner the day he died.
I know he held a position as a teacher at a military school in Virginia (I believe that school was a predecssor to VMI). I was not aware that he even owned any land or a plantation.
Most slave owners didn't own plantations. Slavery was very much a middle-class institution and most slaves didn't work in the fields. They worked in the houses as maids, cooks, gardeners, grooms, what have you. The number of slaves that Jackson owned at any one time varied, but it was as many as seven or eight.