A Slave in the White House
Paul Jennings and the Madisons. Foreword By Annette Gordon-Reed
(Sprache: Englisch)
The inspiring story of a presidential slave's long struggle for freedom Based on correspondence, legal documents, and journal entries rarely seen before, this amazing portrait of the times reveals the attitudes toward slavery of the nineteenth century. It...
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The inspiring story of a presidential slave's long struggle for freedom Based on correspondence, legal documents, and journal entries rarely seen before, this amazing portrait of the times reveals the attitudes toward slavery of the nineteenth century. It also introduces readers to slaves, abolitionists, and civil right activists hitherto forgotten.
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Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia. As a young boy, he was part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Toward the end of the Madisons' time there, he helped rescue the portrait of George Washington before the British burned down the White House. Later, he became Mr. Madison's personal attendant during his retirement and got married to a slave in a plantation further off. Longing for freedom, he was finally emancipated by Senator Daniel Webster and became an abolitionist. He would later 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 75. 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, andsheds new light on famous characters such as James Madison, who believed the white and black populations could not coexist as equals; French General Lafayette who was appalled by this idea; Dolley Madison, who ruthlessly sold Paul after her husband's death; and many more. It also introduces readers to slaves, abolitionists, and civil right activists hitherto forgotten.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „A Slave in the White House “
Preface; A.Gordon-Reed Introduction
Raised and Nurtured
Presidential Household
Enamoured with Freedom
Not Even Paul
Change of Mind
His Own Free Hands
First Families of Color
The Right to Rise
Appendix:A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Autoren-Porträt von Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor and Foreword By Annette Gordon-Reed
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
- 2012, 336 Seiten, 8 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 15,9 x 24 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Education
- ISBN-10: 0230108938
- ISBN-13: 9780230108936
Sprache:
Englisch
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'[Paul Jennings's] remarkable life sheds new light on the central themes of American history during his lifetime and beyond. Taylor's sensitive reconstruction of one man and his family's experiences yields fresh perspectives on a wide range of subjects, including but hardly limited to James and Dolley Madison, the Montpelier plantation that was their and Jennings's home, the African-American experience under slavery, the world of free blacks in Washington City during the late antebellum era, and the Civil War and its legacy.Scholars and general readers alike will not be able to put this remarkable book down.' - Drew McCoy, history professor at ClarkUniversity and author of The Lastof the Fathers 'Elizabeth Dowling Taylor has presented us with the gift of a new American hero.With precision and compassion, Taylor deftly brings Paul Jennings out of the shadows of history. Writer, property-owner, freedom fighter, husband, and father - Jennings's life reveals the complicated humanity behind the designation 'slave.'This story will humble and inspire all who believe in the American Dream.' - Catherine Allgor, Professor of History at the University of California at Riverside, UC Presidential Chair
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