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A Slave in the White House
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-03 - Publisher: Macmillan

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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 a
Behind the Scenes
Language: en
Pages: 408
Authors: Elizabeth Keckley
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a salve and subsequent four years in Abra
Black Hands, White House
Language: en
Pages: 395
Authors: Renee K. Harrison
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-02 - Publisher: Fortress Press

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Black Hands, White House documents and appraises the role enslaved women and men played in building the US, both its physical and its fiscal infrastructure. The
The Black History of the White House
Language: en
Pages: 662
Authors: Clarence Lusane
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-23 - Publisher: City Lights Books

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The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americ
The Invisibles
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Jesse Holland
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-01 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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The Invisibles chronicles the African American presence inside the White House from its beginnings in 1782 until 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the