A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons
- ISBN-10
- 0230108938
- ISBN-13
- 9780230108936
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-01-03
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Description
Chronicles the life of a former slave to James and Dolley Madison, tracing his early years on their plantation, his service in the Madison White House household staff and post-emancipation achievements as a first White House memoirist and father of two Union Army soldiers.
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