Behind the Scenes is the life story of Elizabeth Keckley, a shrewd entrepreneur who, while enslaved, raised enough money to purchase freedom for herself and her son.
Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House Elizabeth Keckley. PREFACE. I have often been asked to write my life, as those who know me know that it has been an eventful one. At last I have acceded to the importunities of ...
This enthralling, poignant book is an extraordinary piece of American history that will delight anyone interested in slave narratives, such as Frederick Douglass' ́Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass ́.
Behind the Scenes. by Elizabeth Keckley. Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House.
Presents a fictionalized account of the friendship between Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave.
Originally published in 1868when it was attacked as an indecent book authored by a traitorous eavesdropper"Behind the Scenes" is the story of Elizabeth Keckley, who began her life as a slave and became a privileged witness to the presidency ...
Yet this book has survived all odds and has now become an important document on Anti-Slavery and the Lincolns. A must read for anyone who is interested in American History!
... Elegant Extracts, or Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations. He memorized William Cullen Bryant's poem “Thanatopsis," about accepting death amid life, and turned down the page for William 161.
"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 ...
Selected chapters from the memoirs of Elizabeth Keckley, Mary Todd Lincoln's dressmaker and confidante, originally published in 1868, along with twenty WPA slave interviews.