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Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling.

A slave in the White House [sound recording] / Elizabeth Dowling Taylor. - Unabridged. - [Minneapolis] : HighBridge Audio, p2012. - 9 sound discs (10 3/4 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. - 104500

Includes "A colored man's reminiscences of James Madison" by Paul Jennings. Compact discs.

Read by Judith West and Kevin Kenerly.

Chronicles the life of a former slave to James and Dolley Madison, tracing his early years on their plantation, his service in the White House household staff and post-emancipation achievements as a memoirist.

ISBN: 9781611748598 : $34.95 1611748593

Subjects--Personal Names:
Jennings, Paul, b. 1799.
Madison, James, 1751-1836 --Relations with African Americans.
Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849 --Relations with African Americans.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
White House (Washington, D.C.)--History--19th century.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Slaves--Washington (D.C.)--Biography.
Slaves--Virginia--Biography.
Abolitionists--United States--Biography.
African American abolitionists--Biography.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Audiobooks.

LC Class. No.: E444.J46 / T39 2012ab

Dewey Class. No.: 326/.8092 B