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Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

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History, Biographies & Memoirs

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Elizabeth Dowling Taylor received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Over a 22-year career in museum education and historical research, she was Director of Interpretation at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and Director of Education at James Madison’s Montpelier. Most recently a Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Taylor is now an independent scholar and lecturer. She lives in Barboursville, Virginia.

Her latest book A SLAVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE (pub 01/03/2012) follows the inspiring story of Paul Jennings, James Madison's enslaved manservant who began his life on the Virginia plantation of a U.S. president and ended it as a free man. ...more

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	A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor (Goodreads Author), Annette Gordon-Reed (Foreword) 3.63 avg rating — 864 ratings — published 2012 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era 4.01 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The great attainments and great achievements of men have been not only won through sturdy struggle, but wrung of what men call an adverse fate, which is the best educator a man can have. A young man is not to seek a place made, but to make a place. Openings in life are things compelled, not things granted.” By”
― Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

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“Now and always, we expect to insist upon it that we are Americans, that America is our native land; that this is our home; that we are American citizens . . . and that it is the duty of the American people so to recognize us. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS A”
― Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

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The History Book ...: * BIOGRAPHIES OF OTHER FOUNDING FATHERS	50	362	Sep 28, 2016 09:56AM
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The History Book ...: * #4 (US) JAMES MADISON (PRESIDENT) 1809 - 1817	78	490	Apr 04, 2025 08:50AM
The History Book ...: * SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES	103	488	Jun 27, 2025 10:53AM

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