Latest news from Benicia, CA collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: Irish (6.8%), German (6.7%), English (6.1%), Italian (4.2%), American (4.1%), European (2.0%). Current Local Time: PST time zone. Elevation: 33 feet.
Report Abuse. 1  Andrew Jackson And Slaves. Source(s): https://shorte.im/a0dPj. 2  From what I know I would say he was but then Jackson was a breed all his own the why he had a decade named after him. The Jacksonian era and in the war of 1812 he served beside slaves and carribs.
Abraham Lincoln tried to give blacks equal rights, and in some way was trying to abolish slavery. He did this by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, which was first and forâ¦emost, issued a a military tactic, to further quash the Confederacy's power. It was also an opportunity to achieve his goal, to abolish slavery.