Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House by Keckley, Elizabeth
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House by Keckley, Elizabeth

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

2017 Reprint of 1868 Edition. An autobiographical narrative, Behind the Scenes traces Elizabeth Keckley's life from her...
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Author: Elizabeth Keckley
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Language: English
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House by Keckley, Elizabeth

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

$9.76
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House by Keckley, Elizabeth

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

$9.76
Author: Elizabeth Keckley
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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2017 Reprint of 1868 Edition. An autobiographical narrative, Behind the Scenes traces Elizabeth Keckley's life from her enslavement in Virginia and North Carolina to her time as seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln in the White House during Abraham Lincoln's administration. It was quite controversial at the time of its release--an uncompromising work that transgressed Victorian boundaries between public and private life, and lines of race, gender, and society.

Keckley's first 30 years were spent as a slave, and the cruelties and injustices of her life are related clearly and succinctly. This enlightening memoir recounts how she was beaten and how she became a dressmaker to support her master and his family, how determined she was to purchase freedom for herself and her son, how her friends in St. Louis came to her aid, how she became Mary Todd Lincoln's dressmaker and close friend, and her perspectives and experiences from her inside view of Lincoln's White House. Keckley emerges as a calm and confident person who speaks of a very tumultuous period of American history.



Author: Elizabeth Keckley
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Published: 05/25/2017
Pages: 166
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9781684221127

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