and paul jennings was enslaved

and paul jennings was enslaved to the madisons, john and dolly madison. now, he was there when they burnt down the white house. in fact, the very day that the british were down the road and they could see the smoke coming from other buildings, he was in the white house packing stuff. and they took off, like, within an hour or so before the british actually got to the building and burned it down. now, we actually have details about this because he actually wrote a memoir in 1865 and was actually the first memoir won by somebody who actually worked in the white house. then he talks about his relationship with dolly madison which is interesting because when madison died, there had been a promise that he would be freed. dolly didn't free him. and it took him a while, up until 1847, for him to actually make enough money to buy his freedom. but then he talked later how dolly madison went into very hard times because all her friends and family abandoned her, and he actually had to bring her food, had to give her money, had to help take care of her, right? the wo

and books that they've written and as you have mentioned very early on there was a slave named paul jennings who wrote about these experiences in the white house and published a book about it that was interesting. there was a couple of people who worked for president clinton will actually gave interviews in a limited way at the time, but very fascinating and i think the more we know about them the more insight we get into president lincoln. there was a seamstress named elizabeth keckley who was very close to the lincoln's and there was a ballet named william slade who was of particular interest to historians. we don't really know agreed to without them, but lincoln trusted william slade so much as a man who was close to public opinion. more than the advisers. so he would actually run his speeches by williams leave. he ran the gettysburg address by him, he took enough to gettysburg and they spend the night before this -- the event going over the speech and lincoln basically gave the speech to william slade and got feedback and it's interesting that this was an african-american former slave th

interviews and books that give written as you mentioned, very early on there was a slave named paul jennings who wrote about his expenses in the white house and published a book about it, that was very interesting. there was a couple of people who worked for president lincoln who gave interviews in a limited way at the time but i read fascinating and i think the more we know about, the more insight we get into president lincoln, there's a seamstress named elizabeth he was very close to the lincolns, and it was a valet named william slade it was of particular interest to historians. we don't know a great deal about him, but lincoln trusted william slade so much as a man who was close to public opinion, more than lincolns advisors. he would actually run his speeches by william slade. he ran the gettysburg address by him. he took them up to gettysburg within. they spent the night before the event going over the speech, and lincoln basically gave a speech to william slade and got feedback yet and it's very interesting that this was an african-american, a former slave the president valued so much

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