![]() ![]() He then met his wife, Bertha Palmer, and gave his mother, Queen Jackson Haley, three grand children: George, who became a lawyer, Julius, an architect, and Alex who became a writer. ![]() He then went on become Dean of Agriculture of Alabama A&M University. ![]() Simon Haley later went to attend Lane College CME church located in Jackson, Tennessee and earned his master's degree at Cornell University. Alec and Queen each had a son from previous relationships. After many adventures, often unpleasant, she married a reasonably successful former slave by the name of Alec Haley, and had one son by him (Simon Haley). Jass Jackson would not acknowledge her as his daughter, afraid of compromising the inheritance of his legitimate children and goaded by his wife, who despised Queen. After the American Civil War of 1861 to 1865 and the subsequent abolition of slavery, Queen was cast out. The novel recounts Queen's anguished early years as a slave girl, longing to know who her father was, and how it gradually dawned on her that he was her master. The noted author Alex Haley (1921–1992) was the grandson of Queen, the illegitimate and unacknowledged daughter of James "Jass" Jackson III (the son of a friend, but not a relative, of Andrew Jackson) and his slave, Easter. ![]()
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