Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
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Elizabeth Dowling Taylor is the author of the New York Times bestseller A SLAVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE: Paul Jennings and the Madisons. She is the former Director of Education at James Madison’s Montpelier and now an independent scholar living in Virginia.

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Let Us Honor Slave-Owning Presidents?

Posted February 20, 2012 | 02/20/12 07:27 AM ET

Here it is again, the intersection of Presidents Day and Black History Month. Eight of our early presidents, beginning with George Washington, owned slaves during their tenure in the nation's highest office. The two I am most familiar with, given my career at the historic sites of Monticello and Montpelier,...

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