James Madison was very conflicted over the topic of slavery. As stated in the article “Montpelier: The People, The Place, The Idea,” James Madison was stuck between “...the great American disconnect—a country founded on principles of liberty and equality…yet founded on the backs of human property.” While Madison envisioned a new republic without slavery, slaves helped run much of the American economy at the time. Also, James Madison thought that white Americans would not accept African Americans as free people living in society with them and he wanted to keep his wife’s future secure after his death. Therefore, James Madison had many slaves that he gave to his wife, Dolley, in his will upon his death. James Monroe hoped for slavery to eventually end, but he still owned slaves of his own and did not want to cause violence with the abolition of slavery. In the article “James Monroe and Slavery” it said that “while he never advocated for equal rights for the enslaved population, Monroe sought a gradual end to slavery and promoted the re-settling of freed slaves either in the Caribbean or in Africa.” In 1822, Liberia was established on the west coast of Africa as a place for the freed slaves to settle, and Monroe endorsed the area during his presidency. Despite his desire to end slavery, James Monroe…show more content… Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage published an article called “Andrew Jackson’s Enslaved Laborers” that said “the more land Andrew Jackson accrued, the more slaves he procured to work it. Thus, the Jackson family’s survival was made possible by the profit garnered from the crops worked by the enslaved on a daily basis.” Andrew Jackson was in favor of slaves to work on his plantation and other plantations around the nation for the production of crops. Over his lifetime, Andrew Jackson owned about 150 slaves that worked for him and they produced a cash crop, cotton, on the Hermitage’s 1,000 acres of
