I said, those that were no overtly treasonous, are open for debate, not an automatic get out of jail free pass. Were we to have a debate about Jackson, things like this would need to be considered:
https://www.history.com/news/andrew-jackson-presidency-controversial-legacy
Records show he beat his enslaved workers, including doling out a brutal public whipping to a woman he felt had been “putting on airs.” And when any of them ran away, he pursued them and put them in chains when they were recovered. In an 1804 newspaper advertisement for a 30-year-old runaway named Tom, he offered an extra $10 for every 100 lashes doled out to the escapee.
As the United States expanded, the seventh president also opposed policies that would have outlawed slavery in western territories. And when abolitionists attempted to send anti-slavery tracts to the South during Jackson’s presidency, he helped
ban their delivery and called the anti-slavery advocates monsters who should “atone for this wicked attempt with their lives.”
Despite Jackson’s support of slavery and participation in the slave trade, early biographers downplayed his pro-slavery stance, writes historian Mark R. Cheatham, who calls their reluctance to examine Jackson as a slave owner “surprising and disappointing.”
Let's put it this way, history will never forget the evil orange one in the office of presidency today, but does anyone really want a statue built to Trump? (Oh god, don't answer that. I just felt myself throw up a little.
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