A Slave in the White House by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

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 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 other since forgotten slaves, abolitionists, and civil right activists. A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons is written by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor and published by St. Find out how to watch Elizabeth Dowling Taylor: A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons. A Slave in the White House, Paul Jennings and the Madisons By Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, Palgrave Macmillan, January 2012, Hardcover 28.00, also in paperback, audio CD and Kindle editions. He died a free man in northwest Washington at 75. Once 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. Elizabeth Dowling Taylor's history 'A Slave in the White House' tells the story of Paul Jennings, President James Madison's body servant, who attended Madison in the White House, then moved.

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. Slave in the White House Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling Published by Griffin (2013) ISBN 10: 0230341985 ISBN 13: 9780230341982 New Soft cover Quantity: 1 Seller: Morrison Books (Poway, CA, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Soft cover.

A Slave in the White House by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor