Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. Over a 22-year career in museum education and historical research, she was director of interpretation at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and director of education at James Madison’s Montpelier. Most recently a fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Taylor is now an independent scholar and lecturer. She is the author of A Slave in the White House. She lives in Barboursville, Virginia.
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A Slave in the White House
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor and Foreword By Annette Gordon-Reed
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Griffin
Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once finally emancipated by Senator...
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