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A Slave in the White House - Paul Jennings and the Madisons (Paperback) Loot Price: R471
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A Slave in the White House - Paul Jennings and the Madisons (Paperback): Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

A Slave in the White House - Paul Jennings and the Madisons (Paperback)

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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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2013
First published: February 2013
Authors: Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Foreword by: Annette Gordon-Reed
Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 978-0-230-34198-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Slavery & emancipation
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
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LSN: 0-230-34198-5
Barcode: 9780230341982

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