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John Jackson and Family: An In-Depth Timeline
Author Celia Renshaw Shares a Detailed Family Timeline Ever the meticulous researcher, Celia has assembled a timeline of events related to John Jackson (father of Thomas Jackson) and his other English relatives. Referencing important family milestones, family controversies (such as John Jackson’s imprisonment), and wider historical events that would have mattered especially to John […]
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Introducing the father of Thomas Jackson : John Jackson, Ropemaker of Ilkeston, Derbyshire, 1764-1844
Family historian solves important riddles about the life of Thomas’ father, John Jackson For years, Friends of Thomas Jackson struggled to unearth any information on John Jackson apart from the anecdotes peppered here and there in his son’s writings. Above all we wanted to know what truth, if any, there was behind Thomas Jackson’s […]
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Assessing the Significance of the Thomas Jackson Collection
“Thomas Jackson’s story has been largely untold, but the record he left behind demands historical analysis. His erudite letters have much to contribute to our understanding of the abolitionist movement, the evolution of attitudes to race, and everyday experiences of the U.S. Civil War. Jackson’s status as a British immigrant also provides us with an […]
Read MoreFriends of Thomas Jackson Inc is organized exclusively for educational purposes and is dedicated to continuing to make available digitally, and in print the contents of the trove of original letters written by abolitionist Thomas Jackson in the 1800s and now passed into the hands of the Library of Congress to be maintained as part of its historical collections for perpetuity.
The contents of the collection include historical materials about the American civil war, slavery, and associated documents relating to the prime author, his family, his business, and societal conditions during his life.
For more information, please email us at info@friendsofthomasjackson.org
Jackson Families in Ilkeston
The specialist website Old Ilkeston is focused on a small town in central England but also has accumulated an extensive collection of data on the history and genealogy of the Jackson family. There you can find rich details on the early life of Thomas Jackson and also his colorful father John Jackson who feature as […]
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