I think…and hope…this will be happening in a lot of places.
I work in a historic cemetery in the South where we have VA markers for soldiers who served in the Confederate Army, which were approved by Presidents Truman and Eisenhower in 1951-52 as a sign of national reconciliation.
History is history. I think Andrew Jackson was horrible on many levels…pro-slavery, a cruel slave owner himself, anti-Indian, ani-Catholic, expansionist not matter whose legal property it was. He was terrible in his attacks on Spanish Florida, but he was successful and ended up being the first US Governor of Florida.
Not likeable…but nobody can deny that he had a major effect on the formation of the territory that is now the US, so whether you like him or not, you can’t erase him and just need to know and acknowledge the history, good and bad.
That said, his main defect is that he was the founder of the Democratic Party. So maybe let’s rethink this…LOL!
... History is history. I think Andrew Jackson was horrible on many levels…pro-slavery, a cruel slave owner himself, anti-Indian, ani-Catholic, expansionist not matter whose legal property it was. He was terrible in his attacks on Spanish Florida, but he was successful and ended up being the first US Governor of Florida.
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Good point. The issue here isn’t men like Andrew Jackson or George Washington, whose legitimate claims to fame do not involve fighting in a war to keep slavery. Their great accomplishments outside of slavery cannot be cancelled just because they owned slaves.