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John Trumbull's 1780 portrait George Washington also depicts a man believed to be Washington's enslaved valet William Lee (Metropolitan Museum of Art 24.109.88)
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Miscaptioned c. 1937 photo of William Andrew Johnson, who had been enslaved by Andrew Johnson, and was believed to be the last surviving person enslaved by a U.S. president.[22] Andrew Johnson bid $500 for William A. Johnson's mother Dolly Johnson[23]
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Elias Polk was enslaved by James K. Polk at his farm in Maury County, Tennessee
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In 1875, the St. Louis Globe published this interview with Moses Key, a former slave of James Monroe
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Anna Judge, "nearly a hundred years old" and formerly enslaved by William Henry Harrison, died in a kitchen-fire accident in 1899
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In 1862, Zachary Taylor's daughter requested financial compensation from the U.S. government for the value of Jane Webb, a formerly enslaved woman who had accompanied her father to the White House during his presidency[24]
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Alfred Jackson (1812–1901) lived at The Hermitage longer than any other person
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Henry Hawkins (1819–1917) accompanied Zachary Taylor on his Mexican-American War campaigns, and was to be interred at the mausoleum of Dick Taylor in Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans (Natchez Democrat, July 6, 1917)
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1870 federal census of Ross County, Ohio; the enumerator broke protocol to note of Madison Hemings, "This man is the son of Thomas Jefferson."
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Madison's brother and fellow slave of Thomas Jefferson Eston Hemings moved to Wisconsin and changed his name to Jefferson; Eston's son John Wayles Jefferson (pictured) was a U.S. Army officer during the Civil War
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Paul Jennings wrote A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison and helped plan what became known as the Pearl incident