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  2. Paul Jennings (c. 1799–1874) was an American abolitionist and writer. Enslaved as a young man by President James Madison during and after his White House years, Jennings published, in 1865, the first White House memoir.

  3. Paul Jennings, an enslaved African American who served the Madison family both at Montpelier and in Washington, D.C., made the incredible journey from slavery to freedom to memoirist. His brief volume, entitled A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison, is considered the first memoir about life at the White House.

  4. Feb 1, 2017 · A mid-nineteenth-century photograph of Paul Jennings by the E.C. Perry Photograph Company. Paul Jennings was born in 1799 at Montpelier, the Virginia estate of James and Dolley Madison. His mother, an enslaved woman of African and Native American descent, told him that his father was the local English trader Benjamin Jennings.

  5. Dec 22, 2021 · ENTRY. Paul Jennings (1799–1874) SUMMARY. Paul Jennings is the author of A Colored Man’s Reminiscences of James Madison (1865), a memoir about his service as an enslaved footman in the White House.

  6. Montpelier, Virginia. Date of Birth: 1799. Place of Death: Washington, D.C. Date of Death: 1874. A slave in the service of Dolley and James Madison for 48 years, Paul Jennings has provided valuable insight into their character, as well as life for a slave in the White House.

  7. Paul Jennings, an enslaved African American who served the Madison family both at Montpelier and in Washington, D.C., made the incredible journey from enslaved to free man to memoirist. His brief volume, entitled A Colored Man’s Reminiscences of James Madison, is considered the first memoir about life at the White House.

  8. Nov 6, 2017 · Paul Jennings: The Madison Staple. Posted on November 6, 2017 by Jack Lodge. After a lifetime of enslavement, Paul Jennings achieved freedom in March of 1847 by Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts. Jennings had only had two masters prior, the most notable, and with whom he spent the most time, being James Madison; the fourth president of ...

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