Episode 32 - Think My Dear Mistress - a podcast by Hum. Servt

Sarah Stewart to Dolley Madison, 5 July 1844

In which an enslaved woman who has been arrested (because Dolley Madison's son was in debt, and she and her community were held as collateral) writes to her enslaver.This week I am joined by Hilarie M. Hicks, Senior Research Historian at James Madison's Montpelier.

Further Reading:Sarah Stewart to Dolley Payne Todd Madison, 5 July 1844, in
The Dolley Madison Digital Edition, ed. Holly C. Shulman.Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Rotunda, 2004.
http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/dmde/DPM1385 (accessed2021-01-15).

Watch this wonderful video exhibit from James Madison's Montpelier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsvQEdsSZ_8Check out"A Mere Distinction of Colour": https://www.montpelier.org/resources/mere-distinction-of-colour

Here's some of Hilarie's excellent work with the Naming Project: https://digitaldoorway.montpelier.org/2020/12/11/the-naming-project-catharine-caty-taylor/This book rules: Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling. A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

And SUPPORT THE MONTPELIER DESCENDANTS COMMITTEE! https://www.change.org/p/support-the-montpelier-descendants-committee?recruiter=77829525&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&recruited_by_id=bbdcac5f-be54-4e53-b035-9ecbdb6b6b3c&share_bandit_exp=initial-32812090-en-US&utm_content=fht-32812090-en-us%3A0

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