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JMU names new dorm after slave
By BRIDGET MANLEY • 1 HOUR AGO
... On a crisp morning in Harrisonburg, construction workers are hard at work on a new residence hall that will house 500 JMU students this fall.
The enormous structure looms over the Convocation Center on the east side of campus. But it’s making news for another reason: after meeting with JMU students, the university has decided to name the building after James Madison’s enslaved personal manservant, Paul Jennings.
Jennings was born into slavery, served Madison both at Montpelier and the White House, bought his own freedom and later wrote the first memoir about life in the White House ...
http://www.wmra.org/post/jmu-names-new-dorm-after-man-enslaved-madison#stream/0
