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Zachary Taylor and slavery information


"General Taylor's Plantation" probably depicted 1840s, from Das illustrirte Mississippithal by Henry Lewis (SIUE Digital)
Henry Hawkins (1819–1917) accompanied Taylor on his Mexican-American War campaigns ("Former slave of General Zachary Taylor dies" Natchez Democrat, July 6, 1917)
Map from 1866 showing Cypress Grove Plantation along the Mississippi River as "Genl. Taylors Old Place"

Zachary Taylor, the 12th U.S. president (from 1849 to 1850), owned slaves throughout his life. As President, he generally resisted attempts to expand slavery in the territories, but opposed the Compromise of 1850.

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Zachary Taylor and slavery

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Zachary Taylor

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Sarah Knox Taylor

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Sarah Knox Davis (née Taylor; March 6, 1814 – September 15, 1835) was the daughter of the 12th U.S. president Zachary Taylor and part of the notable Lee...

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List of presidents of the United States who owned slaves

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slaves, including while he was president. Zachary Taylor was the last one who owned slaves during his presidency, and Ulysses S. Grant was the last president...

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John Taylor Wood

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Taylor Wood was the son and first child of Robert Crooke Wood from Rhode Island, an army surgeon, and Ann Mackall Taylor, eldest daughter of Zachary Taylor...

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Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park

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The Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park, also known simply as Fort Taylor, is a Florida State Park and National Historic Landmark centered on a Civil...

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1848 United States presidential election

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Soil Party, which opposed the extension of slavery into the territories. The Whig choice of Zachary Taylor was made almost out of desperation; he was...

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Mary Elizabeth Bliss

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"Betty" Taylor Bliss Dandridge (née Taylor; April 20, 1824 – July 25, 1909), was the youngest of the three surviving daughters of President Zachary Taylor and...

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Battle of Palo Alto

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2,300 United States troops – the Army of Occupation led by General Zachary Taylor. On April 30, following the Thornton Affair, Mexican General Mariano...

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Battle of Monterrey

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Regulars, Volunteers and Texas Rangers under the command of General Zachary Taylor. The hard-fought urban combat led to heavy casualties on both sides...

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Compromise of 1850

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opposed by President Zachary Taylor, anti-slavery Whigs like William Seward, and pro-slavery Democrats like John C. Calhoun, and congressional debate...

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Battle of Resaca de la Palma

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the Mexican–American War, where the United States Army under General Zachary Taylor engaged the retreating forces of the Mexican Ejército del Norte ("Army...

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Battle of Lake Okeechobee

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the 1st, 4th, and 6th Infantry Regiments and 132 Missouri Volunteers (under the command of Colonel Zachary Taylor), and between 380 and 480 Seminoles...

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Zachary Macaulay

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Zachary (and Macaulay, Aulay) in the Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology (Edinburgh, 1993) ISBN 0-567-09650-5 Negro slavery By Zachary...

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Joseph Pannell Taylor

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younger brother of Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Richard Taylor and Sarah Dabney Strother...

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Margaret Taylor

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States from 1849 to 1850 as the wife of President Zachary Taylor. She married Zachary in 1810 and lived as an army wife, accompanying her husband to his...

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Battle of Buena Vista

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was fought between US forces, largely volunteers, under General Zachary Taylor, and the much larger Mexican Army under General Antonio López de Santa...

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California Statehood Act

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California Popular Sovereignty and Slavery in the United States Presidency of Zachary Taylor Presidency of Millard Fillmore Slavery in the United States Bibliography...

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John Taylor of Caroline

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Convention held between May and July 1776, that declared in favor of independence. Taylor was of the same line as General Zachary Taylor, who became the President...

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Fort Gardiner

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during the Second Seminole War to assist Colonel Zachary Taylor's troops to capture Seminole Indians and their allies in the central part of the Florida...

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Millard Fillmore

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Representatives, Fillmore was elected vice president in 1848, and succeeded to the presidency when Zachary Taylor died in July 1850. Fillmore was instrumental in passing...

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Presidency of Millard Fillmore

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Fillmore became President of the United States upon the death of Zachary Taylor, and ended on March 4, 1853. Fillmore had been Vice President of the United...

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List of presidents of the United States who died in office

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believed to be pneumonia. The second American president to die in office, Zachary Taylor, died on July 9, 1850, from acute gastroenteritis. Abraham Lincoln was...

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Free Soil Party

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a convention of anti-slavery politicians and activists in case the 1848 Whig National Convention nominated General Zachary Taylor of Louisiana for president...

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