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Three slaves at the White House: Ibid.

"Can one imagine": Wills, Negro President Negro President, p. 213.

"To the Southern-born": Bordewich, Was.h.i.+ngton: The Making of the American Capital Was.h.i.+ngton: The Making of the American Capital, p. 191.

On a given day: Robert J. Kapsch, "Building Liberty's Capital: Black Labor and the New Federal City," American Visions American Visions, February-March 1995.

Jennings recalled Dolley: Jennings, A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison, p. 12.

"I never saw him in a pa.s.sion": Ibid., p. 17.

"I was always with Mr. Madison": Ibid., p. 20.

We do know that James Polk: William Seale, "Upstairs and Downstairs: The 19th Century White House," American Visions American Visions, February-March 1995.

Keckley called slavery: Keckley, Behind the Scenes Behind the Scenes, p. 3.

She was, she tells us: Ibid., p. 14.

When her uncle: Ibid., p. 12.

The resulting pregnancy: Ibid., p. 16.

Keckley understood well: Ibid., p. 15.

She married but refused: Ibid., p. 20.

Instead, she developed her skills: Ibid., p. 34.

Mrs. Lincoln had spilled coffee: Ibid., p. 35.

"You seem to be": Ibid., p. 39.

On the evening: Ibid., p. 45.

Almost immediately: Ibid., p. 46.

Keckley describes Lincoln: Ibid.

And in a scene of gothic strangeness: Ibid., p. 47.

First, she was taken: Ibid., p. 83.

"They made room for me": Ibid., p. 84.

After paying her respects: Ibid.

But after the book appeared: Carolyn Sorisio, "Unmasking the Genteel Performer: Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes and the Politics of Public Wrath," African American Review African American Review 34, no. 1 (2000). 34, no. 1 (2000).

"Where will it end?": Fleischner, Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly, p. 317.

In a letter to the New York Citizen Citizen: Ibid., p. 318.

"To become President": Hofstadter, The American Political Tradition The American Political Tradition, p. 164.

If Lincoln grew: Ibid., p. 165.

As he wrote to Horace Greeley: Ibid., p. 169.

The resulting doc.u.ment: Ibid.

Even in August: Stauffer, Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Dougla.s.s and Abraham Lincoln Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Dougla.s.s and Abraham Lincoln, p. 17.

"Your race are suffering": Ibid.

As one of his biographers: Ibid., p. 6.

His glance, Dougla.s.s recalled: Dougla.s.s, Autobiographies Autobiographies, p. 787.

As Dougla.s.s went up the stairs: Stauffer, Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Dougla.s.s and Abraham Lincoln Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Dougla.s.s and Abraham Lincoln, p. 19.

Writing many years later: Dougla.s.s, Autobiographies Autobiographies, p. 785.

"Long lines of care": Ibid.

Lincoln hardly satisfied: Ibid., p. 786.

Dougla.s.s left Was.h.i.+ngton: Ibid., p. 798.

As late as four decades after: New York Times Times, April 12, 1904.

And in 1904: McNeil, Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights, p. xvi.

In the days before Barack Obama was inaugurated: Peter Baker, "Obama's War Over Terror," The New York Times Magazine The New York Times Magazine, January 17, 2010.

Johnson spoke of: Johnson, James Weldon Johnson: The Complete Poems James Weldon Johnson: The Complete Poems, p. 109.

"G.o.d of our weary years": Joseph Lowery, Inaugural Benediction, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C., January 20, 2009.

"Even at the inauguration": Fox News, January 20, 2009.

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