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Behind the Scenes

or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Elizabeth Keckley author James Olney editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:28th Jul '88

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This fascinating autobiography describes one woman's life as a slave and subsequently her four years in Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, a seamstress and dressmaker who was only a few years removed from being a `slave for life', we see historical figures and events ranging from the Lincolns in their private chambers to the return to Richmond after the fall of the Confederate capital.

"Invaluable...Elizabeth Keckley's memoir of her life as a White House dressmaker for Mary Todd Lincoln...[is a] curious gem"--Eric J. Sundquist in The New York Times Book Review "A remarkable vantage point on the Civil War"--Chicago Sun Times

ISBN: 9780195052596

Dimensions: 140mm x 216mm x 27mm

Weight: 658g

432 pages