The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family by Bettye Kearse [in Library Journal]
08 Oct, by in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Black/African American, Nonfiction, Repost
Retired pediatrician Bettye Kearse, her family’s eighth griot (storyteller/historian/genealogist), traces her lineage over two centuries: “Always remember – you’re a Madison. You come from African slaves and a president,” her predecessors instilled. The fourth U.S. president, James Madison, never had biological children with wife Dolley. He...