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

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

Elizabeth Keckley

164 pages • first pub 1868 (editions)

nonfiction biography history memoir informative medium-paced

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ELIZABETH HOBBS KECKLEY (1818-1907), dressmaker to the elite of Washington D.C. on the eve of the Civil War, was, remarkably, a free black woman who'd purchased her emancipation through the fruits of her own hard work. In 1861, she became the pers...

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