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A new tour at Andrew Jackson’s home centers the people he enslaved

The tour of former President Andrew Jackson’s plantation was revamped this year to focus on the lives of the 300 enslaved people he owned. But some say more needs to be done for their descendants.

WPLN’s Cynthia Abrams reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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