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

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

Palgrave Macmillan（2013/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 336 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230341982
• DDC分類 306.362092

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2012.

Full Description

A New York Times bestseller, A Slave in the White House received glowing reviewsthatpraised its narrative and original research. It is the story of Paul Jennings, who was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia and moved with the Madison household staff to the White House. Jennings was a self-taught and self-made man who purchased his own freedom and penned the first ever White House memoir. Nearly two centuries later, Montpelier scholar Elizabeth Dowling Taylor uncovered the memoir. In this amazing narrative she reconstructs his lifeand hisunusual portraits of James and Dolley Madison andSenator Daniel Websterin early nineteenth century Washington, as well as the 1812 assault on British troops and Jennings' heroic saving of George Washington's portrait. Fascinating and original, this is an important contribution to American history.

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