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

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. ELIZABETH DOWLING TAYLOR has over twenty years experience in museum education and historical research. She is now Director of Interpretation at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and Director of Education at James Madison's Montpelier,USA. She became a Research Associate at Montpellier in July 2009 to work on the Paul Jennings project full-time. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, USA. . ANNETTE GORDON-REED a legal scholar and historian. Well-known and respected for her inquiry into colonial interracial relations, she is the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (1997), on the relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, and The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2008), which follows the Hemings family through the nineteenth century and along markedly different paths of racial assimilation and integration. INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-230-10893-6
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 336
• Fecha Publicación: 03/02/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés