Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves
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Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia, where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier to the nation's capital. American icons like Martha Washington, Martha Jefferson, and Dolley Madison were all slaveholders. And as Marie Jenkins Schwartz uncovers in...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:022614755X
ISBN13:9780226147550
Release Date:April 2017
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:416 Pages
Weight:1.69 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"
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