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A Slave in the White House

Name: A Slave in the White House
ISBN: 9781137000187

Paul Jennings and the Madisons

Elizabeth Dowling Taylor,

337 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

A Slave in the White House

Paul Jennings and the Madisons

Elizabeth Dowling Taylor,

About this book

New York Times Bestseller: A "fascinating portrait" of one of the men enslaved by James and Dolley Madison, and his journey toward freedom ( Publishers Weekly).

Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once he was finally emancipated by Senator Daniel Webster later in life, he would give an aged and impoverished Dolley Madison, his former owner, money from his own pocket, write the first White House memoir, and see his sons fight with the Union Army in the Civil War. He died a free man in northwest Washington at seventy-five.

Based on correspondence, legal documents, and journal entries rarely seen before, this amazing portrait of the times reveals the mores and attitudes toward slavery of the nineteenth century, and sheds new light on famous figures such as James Madison, who believed the white and black populations could not coexist as equals; General Lafayette, who was appalled by this idea; Dolley Madison, who ruthlessly sold Paul after her husband's death; and many other since-forgotten slaves, abolitionists, and civil right activists.

"A portrait of a remarkably willful, ambitious, opportunistic, and in his own way well-connected American. You could also call it the American dream." — Fortune

"A great historical biography." — Houston Style Magazine

"A must-read." — The Daily Beast

"Thorough research . . . an important story of human struggle, determination, and triumph." — The Dallas Morning News

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