who believes President Madison didn’t do it?…

Book review:

The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family

by Bettye Kearse

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020

253 pages

Bettye Kearse has written her convincingly detailed book about her family tradition that President James Madison is her relative, six generations back.

Her belief is that Madison fathered a son (Jim, a slave) with Coreen, a black slave cook in his household, and that James and Jim are in the long line of Kearse family grandfathers.

There is no objective proof of the Madison connection, but it’s way too easy to believe that this slave-owning president did what so many other white men did with so many of their slave women in the early 19th century.

I wonder how many “black” Americans have white ancestors?

I wonder how many “white” Americans have black ancestors?

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“Many waters cannot quench love.”

Love will rise to meet you…

(what you hear is poetry)

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by Robert Louis Stevenson

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