Rachael Hood, Senior Editor Belle Meade, which sits 8 miles southwest of downtown Nashville ... about enslaved people's relationships with the plantation owners and their journeys to emancipation.

In 1804, Jackson purchased 425 acres (172 hectares) of land in Nashville and named the property ... from the main plantation house, on a slight hill at the edge of a creek, after experts used ...

Upon Andrew Jackson’s inauguration as the seventh president of the United States in 1829, he owned 95 enslaved people and a sprawling plantation in Nashville named “The Hermitage.” ...