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Thank you so much for that lovely introduction. It is wonderful to be here. I felt like i have come home. I lived in washington for a number of years and logged many hours in this building doing research for my first book. Today i am talking about two of our most popular first ladies, Martha Washington and Dolley Madison. At Martha Jefferson and her daughter cassidy but i am confining my remarks to the washingtons and madison. The important people in the book are the enslaved people martha and dolly claimed as property. Martha washington and Dolley Madison both supervised a large contingent of domestic slaves at their homes in virginia. Martha washington at mount vernon and Dolley Madison at montpelier. Th ....

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