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Paul Jennings was created into slavery on the plantation of Adam and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household personnel at the White House. Once finally emancipated by Senator Daniel Webster later in life, he'd give an aged and impoverished Dolley Madison, his previous owner, money from his own pocket, write the first White House memoir, and see his sons struggle with the Union Army in the Civil Conflict. Based on correspondence, legal documents, and journal entries almost never seen before, this phenomenal portrait uncovers the mores and behaviour toward slavery in the 19th hundred years, and sheds new light on famous people such as Adam Madison, French General Lafayette, Dolley Madison, and many other long-forgotten slaves, abolitionists, and civil privileges activists.
