The Ultimate Bastard

In 1997, an archaeologist studying Hadrian's Wall in England suggested that he may have found evidence of the first concentration camps. Other archaeologists suggest these were early refugee camps operated by the Romans to protect people fleeing from a societal breakdown north of the wall. It is possible that various cultures have instituted ideas that kind of were concentration camps for thousands of years. But we can trace the roots of our modern conception of a concentration camp and they start with Andrew Jackson.