James Madison’s Estate Now Tells Stories of Slaves Who Lived There

James Madison, like most of the first 17 presidents, opposed slavery in principle but held slaves in practice, and apparently ruled them with a whip out of fear that if he didn't, they might revolt, kill him or escape. 

I had no idea, until I read it in Jill Lepore’s These Truths that Madison’s grandfather, Ambrose, was murdered by slaves, poisoned at ag…