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Author Kearse, Bettye, author.

Title The other Madisons : the lost history of a president's Black family / Bettye Kearse.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.5 KEARSE    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY MADISON    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  973.5 KEA    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.5109 KEARSE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  973.5109 KEARSE    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  920 KEARSE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  973.51 KEA    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  973.5 KEARSE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.5109 KEARSE    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  973.5109 KEARSE    Check Shelf

Description x, 253 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Prologue -- The new Griotte -- The box -- Family stories -- Footsteps -- Living history -- Destination Jim Crow -- The dentist -- Beads -- The castle -- The museum -- "Visiting" -- Sanctuaries -- In search of the President's son -- Elizabeth -- Free! -- Gramps -- New York memorial -- The plantation's tale -- History, heritage, memory.
Summary "A descendant of a slave named Coreen, and-according to oral tradition-her owner, President James Madison, finally shares her family's story."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Relations with African Americans. (OCoLC)fst01354226
African American families -- History.
Freed persons -- Texas -- History.
African American families. (OCoLC)fst00799152
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Texas. (OCoLC)fst01210336
Virginia. (OCoLC)fst01204597
HISTORY / African American.
Madison family. (OCoLC)fst00364328
Freedmen. (OCoLC)fst00933987
Coreen, active 18th century.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
Racially mixed people -- United States.
Madison, James, 1751-1836 -- relations with African Americans.
Mandy, active 18th century.
Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- History.
Madison family.
Enslaved persons. (OCoLC)fst01120522
Madison, James, 1751-1836 -- Family.
Racially mixed people. (OCoLC)fst01086595
Madison, James, 1751-1836. (OCoLC)fst00055654
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Lost history of a president's Black family
Other Form: Online version: Kearse, Bettye, The other Madisons Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020 9781328603531 (DLC) 2019024942
ISBN 9781328604392 hardcover
132860439X hardcover
9781328603531 electronic book
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