Jackson's Rise

The specific troubles of 1834 began to take shape on March 4, 1829, when Andrew Jackson was sworn in as the seventh president of the United States. For the Black Seminoles, Jackson's inauguration was a nightmare. The man who had ordered the destruction of the Negro Fort, burned their settlements on the Suwannee, and brought southern-style slavery to Florida was now at the peak of national power. As he had done since 1815, Jackson would try to break up the Seminole maroon settlements and force the blacks into southern-style bondage.