Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House Keckley ElizabethPaperback
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House Keckley ElizabethPaperback 2017 Reprint of 1868 Edition. It was quite controversial at the time of its release--an…
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House Keckley ElizabethPaperback
2017 Reprint of 1868 Edition. It was quite controversial at the time of its release--an uncompromising work that transgressed Victorian boundaries between public and private life, and lines of race, gender, and society.Keckley's first 30 years were spent as a slave, and the cruelties and injustices of her life are related clearly and succinctly. 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 Lincoln's administration.
Louis came to her aid, how she became Mary Todd Lincoln's dressmaker and close This enlightening memoir recounts how she was beaten and how she became a dressmaker to support her master and his family, how determined she was to purchase freedom for herself and her son, how her friends in St.