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A slave in the White House : Paul Jennings and the Madisons

Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling. (Author).

Summary: Chronicles the life of a former slave to James and Dolley Madison, tracing his early years on their plantation, his service in the White House household staff and post-emancipation achievements as a memoirist.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9780230108936
  • ISBN: 0230108938
  • Physical Description: print
    xxiii, 304 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Acknowledgments -- Foreword / by Annette Gordon-Reed -- Author's note -- "Raised and nurtured" -- Presidential household -- "Enamoured with freedom" -- "Not even Paul" -- "Change of mind" -- "His own free hands" -- First families of color -- Epilogue. The right to rise -- Appendix A.A colored man's reminiscences of James Madison / by Paul Jennings -- Appendix B. Jennings family genealogy.

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