"Mr. Madison, I think, was one of the best men that ever lived. I never saw him in a passion, and never knew him to strike a slave, although he had over one hundred; neither would he allow an overseer to do it. Whenever any slaves were reported to him as stealing or “cutting up” badly, he would send for them and admonish them privately, and never mortify them by doing it before others." | by: | Paul Jennings
(1799-1847) American abolitionist, writer, slave of James Madison, helped save the portrait of George Washington in White House fire in 1814 |
Source: | “A Colored Man’s Reminiscences of James Madison,” 1865 |
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