Behind the Scenes
or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Elizabeth Keckley author James Olney editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:15th Feb '90
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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- Hardback£167.50(9780195052596)
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 including the Lincolns in their private chambers and 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' New York Times Book Review
ISBN: 9780195060843
Dimensions: 162mm x 117mm x 27mm
Weight: 304g
404 pages