Excerpt from Narrative and Writings of Andrew Jackson, of Kentucky: Containing an Account of His Birth, and Twenty Six Years of His Life While a Slave, His Escape, Five Years of Freedom, Together With Anecdotes Relating to Slavery, Journal of One Year's Travels, Sketches, EtcAs Andrew is a young pupil, so far as knowledge of letters is concerned, those who know this fact will, of course under stand that, after obtaining the facts, which compose the history, the writer has employed his phraseology to express them. T.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.