Slaves Presidents

New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills, a two-time National Book Critics Circle Award winner, takes a bold and fresh look at Thomas Jefferson. Negro President reveals just how strong slave influence was on determining Jefferson’s policies. Through thorough research Wills shows precisely how this “slave power” helped shape the course of a fledgling nation.

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 Daniel Webster later in life, he would give an aged and impoverished Dolley Madison, his former owner, money from his own pocket, write the first White House memoir, and see his sons fight with the Union Army in the Civil War.

When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects of Jefferson's renowned life, it was perhaps the most hotly contested topic. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings intensified this debate by identifying glaring inconsistencies in many noted scholars' evaluations of the existing evidence. In this study, Gordon-Reed assembles a fascinating and convincing argument that the evidence for the affair has been denied a fair hearing.

In 1784, Thomas Jefferson struck a deal with one of his slaves, 19-year-old James Hemings. The founding father was traveling to Paris and wanted to bring James along for a particular purpose - to master the art of French cooking. In exchange for James's cooperation, Jefferson would grant his freedom. Thus began one of the strangest partnerships in United States history

Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive book - based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's papers - opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson's world. We must, Wiencek suggests, follow the money.

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States is an 1853 novel by the author and playwright William Wells Brown. Set in the early 19th century, it is the story of Clotel and her sister Althesa, who are fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson. It is considered the first novel published by an African American and explores the destructive effects of slavery on African American families, the difficult lives of mixed-race people, and the degraded and immoral condition of the relationship between master and slave.

A major new biography of Washington, and the first to explore his engagement with American slavery When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject of regret." In this...

Our most revered president gets a unique and uniquely engaging biography fashioned from the answers to the most frequent, and most unusual and surprising, questions asked about Abraham Lincoln that Gerald J. Prokopowicz was asked during the nine years he served as scholar-in-residence at the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Prokopowicz's authoritative, often surprising responses illuminate facets of Abraham Lincoln's life, work, and legacy about which people remain endlessly curious.

For the first time, all FOUR books in Leda Lakynn's Cuban Mistress Crisis series are now available in one volume. Senator Ed Cuban very well could be the next President of the United States! There’s only one problem: he has an insatiable lust for mistresses. Between his personal aide, his senior staff member, a political consultant, and a $1000 a night call girl, we have to wonder if there’s any woman he hasn’t enjoyed! When his wife Haley Cuban discovers his adulterous, yet sexy hobby, she also learns that she is a cuckquean who thrives on humiliation and submission. Mistress after ...

Haley Cuban knows that her man, Texas Senator Ed Cuban, will be the next President of the United States. There’s only one little wrinkle in their marriage: Ed has an insatiable appetite for beautiful women! Haley discovers her husband’s appetite during the Iowa Caucus. After Ed’s personal aide, the hot young 25-year-old Sabrina Adamson is rude to Haley all day, Haley finds the girl giving Ed some very personal hot and heavy lessons in political gamesmanship on the campaign bus! Despite the betrayal Haley realizes that she is crazy turned on by Ed’s infidelity. She loves to watch! ...

Returning from D.C. after a huge win in the Iowa Caucus, Senator Ed Cuban and his cuckquean wife Haley are on top of the world. Next stop: the White House! The only thing that might stand in their way is Ed’s insatiable love for hot, sexy mistresses. Haley loves to watch Ed take women to bed, but his mistress Sabrina made Haley promise not to allow him to bring home any new women. This mistress wants to be exclusive! Unfortunately, for Haley, Ed wants her to seduce another woman for him right away! Choosing her husband over his mistress, Haley gets to work bringing the voluptuous and ...

Abraham Lincoln began the morning of August 23, 1864 despairing of re-election: "This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect (George McClellan, running on the Peace Platform), as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he cannot possibly save it afterwards." The Union was losing as many as 15,000 men killed, crippled, and dead from disease per week. Men up to the age of 45 were ...

Growing up in a Quaker family in the South in 1830, Levi Coffin did not support slavery, but he was exposed to its atrocities. Convinced that every person deserved to be free, Levi began helping slaves escape to the North along the Underground Railroad, and during the following 40 years he was able to help over 3,000 people find freedom.