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oh, and somebody like martin van buren, martin van buren's wife died 15 years before he became president and is not even mentioned in his autobiography. so as i say, if we could get them, we got them. well, i would apropos of that, though, people did believe earlier on that personal reasons, the personal life was not anybody else's business. so that they didn't see anything the matter with not mentioning their personal life. you did evidently write something nice in a an obituary of him and the in the case of the hoover's they did destroy all of their correspondence. so there just seems not to be anything there. martha washington tried to burn all the letters she received from george during their long marriage. and people were i. historians, of course, are dismayed at this. but she gave a desk to her grand i think it's a grant graham daughter and the granddaughter found two letters in the in the in the desk and those are in the book. all right. let's go to your question. i was curious, what now from reading all these letters, what was the most interesting thing that you found that you ch
oh, and somebody like martin van buren, martin van buren's wife died 15 years before he became president and is not even mentioned in his autobiography. so as i say, if we could get them, we got them. well, i would apropos of that, though, people did believe earlier on that personal reasons, the personal life was not anybody else's business. so that they didn't see anything the matter with not mentioning their personal life. you did evidently write something nice in a an obituary of him and the...
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andrew jackson, martin van buren, tyler polk and taylor. 12 presidents at some time in their lives, foreign slave workers, washington, jefferson, madison wrote. jackson. van buren. harrison. tyler polk. taylor johnson and grant and grant's probably a surprise that he married into a missouri slave owning family, and he was given some enslaved workers by his father in law that he worked side by side with them, and he did eventually give them their freedom at the white house. these enslaved workers performed a variety of jobs. they were chefs, gardeners, stable hands, maids, butlers, valets, ladies, ladies and. and did all sorts of other cleaning and other work around the white house. so we had this long history up until the lincolns of having a lot of enslaved workers in the white house itself. but things changed with first ladies, beginning with this with abigail adams, who had a very, very different opinion of slavery from her predecessor, martha washington. abigail was an abolitionist and shortly after john adams was inaugurated, and abigail wasn't there at the time. that was not a typical
andrew jackson, martin van buren, tyler polk and taylor. 12 presidents at some time in their lives, foreign slave workers, washington, jefferson, madison wrote. jackson. van buren. harrison. tyler polk. taylor johnson and grant and grant's probably a surprise that he married into a missouri slave owning family, and he was given some enslaved workers by his father in law that he worked side by side with them, and he did eventually give them their freedom at the white house. these enslaved...
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he was he was the vice president under martin van buren. i'd never heard of him till i read this. and and okay, now, why did he pick that guy? well, richard and johnson had enslaved women. and he took one of his enslaved women as, a mistress. and had two daughters with her. and he had the daughters introduced fine society, respectable and. then she died that that mistress died, but her he owned her sister, too. and so he tried to make her his mistress. and that sister ran off. she didn't want anything to do with him. now now, stevens said, this is the man he's most like. i mean, what in the world is he thinking? well, he quickly said, yes, i a woman of color and i love her so much that i would never part with her, but i love a free woman of color who chose me. i chose her and makes all the difference. i didn't force myself on her in any way, but. all right. so the guests often, they were intimate when they came around. a guy named, william t hall, historian, biographer, would say that stevens and lydia were and mrs. smith were first intimate in harrisburg, pennsylvania, know she m
he was he was the vice president under martin van buren. i'd never heard of him till i read this. and and okay, now, why did he pick that guy? well, richard and johnson had enslaved women. and he took one of his enslaved women as, a mistress. and had two daughters with her. and he had the daughters introduced fine society, respectable and. then she died that that mistress died, but her he owned her sister, too. and so he tried to make her his mistress. and that sister ran off. she didn't want...
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he was he was the vice president under martin van buren. i'd never heard of him till i read this. and and okay, now, why did he pick that guy? well, richard and johnson had enslaved women. and he took one of his enslaved women as, a mistress. and had two daughters with her. and he had the daughters introduced fine society, respectable and. then she died that that mistress died, but her he owned her sister, too. and so he tried to make her his mistress. and that sister ran off. she didn't want anything to do with him. now now, stevens said, this is the man he's most like. i mean, what in the world is he thinking? well, he quickly said, yes, i a woman of color and i love her so much that i would never part with her, but i love a free woman of color who chose me. i chose her and makes all the difference. i didn't force myself on her in any way, but. all right. so the guests often, they were intimate when they came around. a guy named, william t hall, historian, biographer, would say that stevens and lydia were and mrs. smith were first intimate in harrisburg, pennsylvania, know she m
he was he was the vice president under martin van buren. i'd never heard of him till i read this. and and okay, now, why did he pick that guy? well, richard and johnson had enslaved women. and he took one of his enslaved women as, a mistress. and had two daughters with her. and he had the daughters introduced fine society, respectable and. then she died that that mistress died, but her he owned her sister, too. and so he tried to make her his mistress. and that sister ran off. she didn't want...
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the free soil party, they nominate former president martin van buren as their candidate. they win 10% of the electoral vote. and the reason they gain so much support, which is the most of the third party, never gained up to that point, is because of the frustration of many northerners who believed in a free soil ideology that neither the whig nor the democratic candidate in the 1848 election would strongly oppose the extension of slavery to the new territories. and that's going to remain an while. there's overlap between the free soil and abolitionist groups, and some people will support both ultimate least the free. so party is going to be swept into the republican party in the in 1854 as at a party party emerges after kansas-nebraska act and the demise of the whig party and that indeed becomes the central platform. this free soil ideal largely for lincoln and the republicans who win in. 1860. and one of the reasons that southern states secede is because they know that lincoln and republicans will not allow for any expansion of slavery. and they believe that slavery is r
the free soil party, they nominate former president martin van buren as their candidate. they win 10% of the electoral vote. and the reason they gain so much support, which is the most of the third party, never gained up to that point, is because of the frustration of many northerners who believed in a free soil ideology that neither the whig nor the democratic candidate in the 1848 election would strongly oppose the extension of slavery to the new territories. and that's going to remain an...