Enslaved and Entrenched
Elias Polk was born into slavery in 1806 on a farm owned by Samuel Polk, father of the future president of...
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A native of Maury County, Tennessee, Zacharie W. Kinslow holds a master’s degree from Austin Peay State University. For five years he worked at the President James K. Polk Home & Museum in Columbia, Tennessee as a docent and educator. Since 2020, he has served as the executive director of the Clement Railroad Hotel Museum in Dickson, TN. Zacharie’s research interests primarily involve slavery and the America presidency as well as Jacksonian America.
Elias Polk was born into slavery in 1806 on a farm owned by Samuel Polk, father of the future president of...
Speaking before the United States House of Representatives in 1825, congressman James K. Polk described American slavery as “a matter which re...