Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
The first White House memoir was written by Paul Jennings, who was part of the Madisons’ household staff. Jennings was a slave—freed only much later by Senator Daniel Webster—and was sold by Dolley Madison after her husband’s death. Taylor, former director of education at James Madison’s Montpelier, chronicles Jennings’s long life (he lived to see his sons fight in the Union army) and the racial attitudes he encountered.
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