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African Americans African Americans Washington (D.C.) Biography African Americans Washington (D.C.) History Presidents Relations with African Americans Presidents Relations with African Americans History Slavery Slavery Washington (D.C.) History United States Washington (D.C.) White House (Washington, D.C.)Davis, Kenneth C.
Summary: "An examination of American slavery through the true stories of five enslaved people who were considered the property of some of our best-known presidents"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 920 DAVHolland, Jesse J.
Summary: Jesse J. Holland's The Invisibles is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion's most unexpected residents, the African American slaves who lived with the U.S. presidents who owned them. Interest in African Americans and the White House are at an all-time high due to the historic presidency of Barack Obama and the soon-to-be-opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 306.3 HOLHolland, Jesse J.
Summary: The Invisibles chronicles the African American presence inside the White House from its beginnings in 1782 until 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that granted slaves their freedom. During these years, slaves were the only African Americans to whom the most powerful men in the United States were exposed on a daily, and familiar, basis. By reading about...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press, An imprint of Rowman & Littlefield 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 HOLDavis, Kenneth C.
Summary: Through the powerful stories of five enslaved people who were “owned” by four of our greatest presidents, this book helps set the record straight about the role slavery played in the founding of America. From Billy Lee, valet to George Washington, to Alfred Jackson, faithful servant of Andrew Jackson, these dramatic narratives explore our country’s great tragedy—that a nation...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Blk DavisSwarns, Rachel L.
Summary: "In 1838, a group of America's most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their mission, the fledgling Georgetown University. Journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. Swarns has broken new ground with her prodigious research into a history that the Catholic Church has edited out of its own narrative. Beginning in the present, when two descendants of a family enslaved by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023