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**At various times he posted advertisements for fugitive slaves who had escaped from his plantation. In one advertisement placed in the Tennessee Gazette in October 1804, Jackson offered "ten dollars extra, for every hundred lashes any person will give him, to the amount of three hundred."

**While in charge of New Orleans he banned all anti-slavery literature from the city and stated that abolitionists deserved to die.

**He actively delayed the abolition of slavery by banning it from being discussed in Congress.

*He engaged a man named Charles Dickinson in a gun duel after Dickinson made [[Defamation|defamatory]] statements about him in a newspaper. Jackson won the duel, killing Dickinson. His behavior in the duel outraged men in Tennessee, who called it a brutal, cold-blooded killing and saddled Jackson with a reputation as a violent, vengeful man. He became a social outcast.

*In the aftermath of the Battle of New Orleans, he refused to lift martial law, even unlawfully arresting a local judge who tried to get him to lift it via the use of a writ of ''habeas corpus''. There are also reports that he had ordered some surrendered enemy troops to be executed (which would be designated a war crime many years later.)

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 **At various times he posted advertisements for fugitive slaves who had escaped from his plantation. In one advertisement placed in the Tennessee Gazette in October 1804, Jackson offered "ten dollars extra, for every hundred lashes any person will give him, to the amount of three hundred."
 **While in charge of New Orleans he banned all anti-slavery literature from the city and stated that abolitionists deserved to die.
+**He actively delayed the abolition of slavery by banning it from being discussed in Congress.
 *He engaged a man named Charles Dickinson in a gun duel after Dickinson made [[Defamation|defamatory]] statements about him in a newspaper. Jackson won the duel, killing Dickinson. His behavior in the duel outraged men in Tennessee, who called it a brutal, cold-blooded killing and saddled Jackson with a reputation as a violent, vengeful man. He became a social outcast.
 *In the aftermath of the Battle of New Orleans, he refused to lift martial law, even unlawfully arresting a local judge who tried to get him to lift it via the use of a writ of ''habeas corpus''. There are also reports that he had ordered some surrendered enemy troops to be executed (which would be designated a war crime many years later.)