‘To the Jackson household, from the least to the greatest, white or black, as they knew him, he was the model man of the world, and especially so in all the relations of home life
’—Roeliff Brinkerhoff (1900 : 57) 456.
‘Now, as attention shifts toward studying the Hermitage within the social context of southern U.S. plantation life, focus on the mansion is moving towards a consideration of its place as a setting for daily social dramas large and small, public and private, and white and black. It is unlikely that future studies of Andrew Jackson and his milieu will ignore the details of his mansion home’
— Larry McKee (1992 : 175).
Cette citation ne doit pas être prise au pied de la lettre, mais est présentée ici comme l’idéal domestique de Jackson et de son époque (Brinkerhoff fut le tuteur des enfants de Junior).