Behind the Scenes: Formerly a Slave, but More Recently Modiste, and Friend to Mrs. Lincoln; Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley, Elizabeth Keckley, Frances Smith Foster
Behind the Scenes: Formerly a Slave, but More Recently Modiste, and Friend to Mrs. Lincoln; Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
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Elizabeth Keckley, Elizabeth Keckley, Frances Smith Foster
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Behind the Scenes: Formerly a Slave, but More Recently Modiste, and Friend to Mrs. Lincoln; Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Elizabeth Keckley, Elizabeth Keckley, Frances Smith Foster

319 pages • first pub 1868 (editions)

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Formerly a slaveBorn into slavery, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (ca. 1824-1907) rose to a position of respect as a talented dressmaker to the political elite of Washington, D.C., and a confidante of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. In this unusual memoir,...

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