Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling

Looks at high-achieving African-American elites in Washington, D.C., during the Reconstruction, focusing on Daniel Murray, an assistant librarian at the Library of Congress, and others in his social class.

A biography of Paul Jennings, slave of President James Madison and African American abolitionists, discussing his life as slave in the White House and on Madison's plantation, what life was like for African American's in early Washington D.C., and his work as a abolitionist.