Paul Jennings' Memoir is an interesting first person source of the period in all its bizarre contradictions. Paul Jennings has written more than one hundred stories and sold over ten million books. Since the publication of Unreal! In 1985, readers all around the world have loved his stories. The first two series of the top-rating TV series Round the Twist were based on Paul’s popular short story collections and he received two Awgie awards forscreenwriting episodes.
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Paul Jennings (1799–1874) was a personal servant, as a young slave, to President James Madison during and after his White House years. After buying his freedom in 1845 from Daniel Webster, Jennings is noted for publishing in 1865 the first White House memoir. His book was A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison, described as 'a singular document in the history of slavery and the early American republic.'
Living in Washington, DC from 1837 on, Jennings made many useful connections and was aided by the northern Senator Daniel Webster in gaining freedom. In the 1850s, Jennings traveled to Virginia, where he tracked down his children, who had grown up on a neighboring plantation with his late wife Fanny, also a slave. His relatives on h...more
| A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison 4.02 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1865 — 16 editions | Rate this book |
| The War of 1812: Writings from America's Second War of Independence by 4.07 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions | Rate this book |
| Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 067 by liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2019 | Rate this book |
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