Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in The Whitehouse
- ISBN-10
- 9351284298
- ISBN-13
- 9789351284291
- Category
- African American women
- Pages
- 371
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1868
- Author
- Elizabeth Keckley
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