Your Weekly Constitutional
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Stewart Harris
A Slave in the White House
59 minutes Posted Feb 23, 2012 at 10:18 pm.
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The riveting story of Paul Jennings, who began life as one of James Madison's slaves, who accompanied Madison to Washington, DC, and who eventually purchased his own freedom from Dolley Madison. We'll speak with Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, who chronicles Jennings's amazing story in her new book, "A Slave in the White House."