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

166 pages first pub 1868 (editions)

nonfiction biography history memoir informative medium-paced

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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 Lin...

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