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

By (author) Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, Foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed

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A New York Times bestseller, A Slave in the White House received glowing reviewsthatpraised its narrative and original research. It is the story of Paul Jennings, who was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia and moved with the Madison household staff to the White House. Jennings was a self-taught and self-made man who purchased his own freedom and penned the first ever White House memoir. Nearly two centuries later, Montpelier scholar Elizabeth Dowling Taylor uncovered the memoir. In this amazing narrative she reconstructs his lifeand hisunusual portraits of James and Dolley Madison andSenator Daniel Websterin early nineteenth century Washington, as well as the 1812 assault on British troops and Jennings' heroic saving of George Washington's portrait. Fascinating and original, this is an important contribution to American history.

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Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Usually dispatched in 14 days
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan
Published date | 6 Mar 2013
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 336
Dimensions | 234 x 157 x 23mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 370g
ISBN | 978-0-2303-4198-2
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BISAC | biography & autobiography / historical

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