Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House
Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (sometimes spelled Keckly; February 1818 – May 1907) was a former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil activist and author in Washington, DC. She was best known as the personal modiste and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady.
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Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House
Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (sometimes spelled Keckly; February 1818 – May 1907) was a former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil activist and author in Washington, DC. She was best known as the personal modiste and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady.
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Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House

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

Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House

by Elizabeth Keckley

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Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (sometimes spelled Keckly; February 1818 – May 1907) was a former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil activist and author in Washington, DC. She was best known as the personal modiste and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady.

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ISBN-13: 9781531273248
Publisher: Firework Press
Publication date: 05/13/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 244,215
File size: 662 KB

About the Author

Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (1818—1907) was born a slave near Dinwiddie Court House, Virginia, and, after purchasing her freedom, became head of the Domestic Science Department at Wilberforce University in Ohio.
William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of To Tell a Free Story and editor or coeditor of more than thirty books on African American literature.
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