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.
1837: Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy is murdered. 1838: Frederick Douglass escapes slavery and becomes active in the abolitionist cause. 1840: Formation of the Liberty Party which ran presidential candidates in 1840 and 1844. 1844: John Quincy Adams finally wins repeal of the Gag Rule in Congress. 1846: Wilmot Proviso, prohibiting slavery in any territory taken from Mexico, is passed in the House, but defeated in the Senate.