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The Working White House: Paul Jennings and Daniel Webster - Photo 1

The Working White House: Paul Jennings and Daniel Webster - Photo 1

Signed agreement between Paul Jennings and Daniel Webster, 1847. This agreement spells out the ways in which Jennings will repay Daniel Webster for having purchased Jennings’ freedom from Pollard Webb. After meeting the terms of this agreement, Jennings became a free man and found work at the Department of the Interior.

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Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University