A Slave in the White House : Paul Jennings and the Madisons

Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling/ Gordon-Reed, Annette (FRW)

Palgrave Macmillan（2012/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 336 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230108936
• DDC分類 306.362092

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2012.

Full Description

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. 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. 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, 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.

Contents

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