Of the first 12 presidents, only John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams, fierce opponents of slavery, did not own slaves, thereby incurring heavy costs for domestic help to maintain the White House.
Grant, and exposes the convoluted laws enacted to impede slaves’ quests for freedom. In this brisk history, Holland (Black Men Built the Capitol: Discovering African American History In and Around Washington, D.C., 2007), Washington correspondent for the Associated Press, examines the tangled relationships between slaves and the presidents they served, from George Washington to Ulysses S. Ten of the first 12 United States presidents were slave masters. Holland lives in Bowie, Maryland, with his wife and children. and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City. Holland is a member of the National Press Club, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Capital Press Club, the Washington Association of Black Journalists, and the Society of Professional Journalists. Holland is a sought after-speaker on African American history and politics, having lectured at universities and institutions like Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. A regular guest on CNN, NBC, Fox News, PBS, C-SPAN's Washington Journal and ABC's News Now, Holland speaks frequently on African American and Washington political topics. in 2000, Holland has covered the White House, the Congress, and the Supreme Court for The AP. (Globe Pequot, 2007) and a longtime Washington correspondent for The Associated Press, the world’s largest news organization.
Holland is the author of Black Men Built the Capitol: Discovering African American History In and Around Washington, D.C. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. By reading about these often-intimate relationships, readers will better understand some of the views that various presidents held about class and race in American society, and how these slaves contributed not only to the life and comforts of the presidents they served, but to America as a whole.
During these years, slaves were the only African Americans to whom the most powerful men in the United States were exposed on a daily, and familiar, basis.
The Invisibles chronicles the African American presence inside the White House from its beginnings in 1782 until 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that granted slaves their freedom. Interest in African Americans and the White House are at an all-time high due to the historic presidency of Barack Obama, and the soon-to-be-opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American Culture and History. THE INVISIBLES: Slavery Inside The White House and How It Helped Shape America is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion’s most unexpected residents, the African American slaves who lived with the U.S.
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