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Slave in the White House Paul Jennings and the Madisons

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Main Author: Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Subjects:
Jennings, Paul, > b. 1799.
White House (Washington, D.C.) > History.
Slaves > Biography.
Abolitionists > United States > Biography.
African American abolitionists > Biography.
Madison, James, > 1751-1836 > Relations with African Americans.
Madison, Dolley, > 1768-1849.
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Physical Description:304 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographic references and index.
ISBN:9780230341982 (pbk.)
0230341985
Author Notes:Elizabeth Dowling Taylor received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. Over a 22-year career in museum education and historical research, she was the director of interpretation at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and director of education at James Madison's Montpelier. Most recently a fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Taylor is now an independent scholar and lecturer. She lives in Barboursville, Virginia.
Annette Gordon-Reed is a historian and legal scholar with a triple appointment at Harvard University, where she is a professor at the law school, the department of history, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2009 she won the Pulitzer Prize in history for her book The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.

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