Special thanks to Zach for sharing his time and insight with us! To learn more about Zach’s work on Elias Polk:
- “James K Polk: Ancestry, Politics, & Policies.” C-SPAN. 12 Apr 2019. https://www.c-span.org/video/?459435-3/james-k-polk-ancestry-politics-policies
- Kinslow, Zacharie. “Enslaved and Entrenched: The Complex Life of Elias Polk.” White House Historical Association. 2018. https://www.whitehousehistory.org/enslaved-and-entrenched
Images Used in the Video:
- “Zacharie Kinslow” (3 photos) courtesy of Zacharie Kinslow
- “Elias Polk“, illustration originally from the Daily American newspaper in Elias Polk’s obituary announcement, 31 Dec 1886, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elias_Polk.jpg
- “James Knox Polk” by George Peter Alexander Healy [Oct 1858] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Knox_Polk_by_GPA_Healy,_1858.jpg
- “Portrait of Mrs. James K Polk” by George Dury after George Peter Alexander Healy [1883] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polk_sarah.jpg
- “Daguerreotype of Dolley Madison” by Mathew Brady [1848] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daguerreotype_of_Dolley_Madison.jpg
- “A gathering on the South Portico of the White House of President Polk, Dolley Madison, and James Buchanan” by John Plumbe Jr [1848] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dolly_MAdison.jpg
- “Paul Jennings” [pre-1874] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Jennings.jpg
- “Polk/Dallas Campaign Banner” by Nathaniel Currier firm [1844] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polk_Dallas_campaign_banner.jpg
- “James Knox Polk” by George Peter Alexander Healy [1846] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JamesKnoxPolk.png
- “John Quincy Adams” [c. 1855-1865 (copy)] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Q._Adams.jpg
- “Oil on canvas portrait of Henry Clay” by Henry F Darby [1858] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clay_portrait.jpg
- “Andrew Jackson” by Thomas Scully [1824] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_Jackson.jpg
- “Lithograph of Andrew Jackson destroying the Second Bank of the United States” by Edward W Clay [c. 1832-1833] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1832bank1.jpg
- “A portrait of New York Governor and US President Martin Van Buren” by Daniel Huntington [c. late 19th/early 20th century] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MVanBuren.png
- “James K Polk” [c. 1846], courtesy of Zacharie Kinslow
- “James K Polk” [c. 1849], courtesy of Zacharie Kinslow
- “New Orleans lithograph from 1852” by J W Hill & Smith [1852] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Orleans_lithograph_from_1852.jpg
- “The Polk House,” courtesy of Zacharie Kinslow
- “Grundy Place” [pre-1845] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GrundyPlace.jpg
- “Hernán Cortés” (portrait given to James K Polk), courtesy of Zacharie Kinslow
- “The Death of James K Polk,” courtesy of Zacharie Kinslow
- “James and Sarah Polk” [1848-1849] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_K_Polk_and_Sarah_C_Polk.jpg
- “Sarah Childress Polk” by George Dury [1875] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sarahdurry.gif.jpg
- “Portrait of Thomas Morris Chester, taken in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania circa 1870” by David C Burnite [1870] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Morris_Chester.jpg
- “Frederick Douglass” by George Kendall Warren [1879] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Douglass_(circa_1879).jpg
Featured Images: “James Knox Polk” by George Peter Alexander Healy [Oct 1858] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Knox_Polk_by_GPA_Healy,_1858.jpg and “Portrait of Mrs. James K Polk” by George Dury after George Peter Alexander Healy [1883] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polk_sarah.jpg