Collection The Presidents
Biographies & Portraits
Title page from Paul Jennings' memoir "A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison."
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- University of North Carolina, Documenting the American South
Title page from Paul Jennings' memoir "A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison."
Title page from Paul Jennings' memoir "A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison."
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