Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a salve and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the...
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 ́.
It is considered both a slave narrative and, in the words of historian Williams Andrews, the first major text to represent the interests and aims of this nascent African American leadership class the postwar era.
So sit back and enjoy how I was designed to help my king. By the time this book releases, he would have found me, because now I can honestly say I am ready to be joined to my king, my pillar, my husband. You are a treasure.
"Behind the Scenes" is an Easter play for children that is easily adaptable for use in the local church or Christian School.
Behind the Scenes presents the story of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre and its major creative personalities: W. B. Yeats, Annie Horniman, J. M. Synge, and Lady Gregory.
Eighteen-year-old Ally Duncan's best friend may be the Vanessa Park - star of TV's hottest new teen drama - but Ally's not interested in following in her BFF's Hollywood footsteps....
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.
This book, out of print for many decades but again available, tells the personal side of living and working in Washington, but also the struggles of a black woman, both as slavge and as free woman, in the turbulent times of the Civil War
... Guide to the Colleges ( you only need to buy one ! ) will also help you begin the complicated process of choosing a college ... parents " have never heard of . " The mythology of size Small colleges are warm , caring , unbureaucratic and ...
Sections include: The history of horse racing from chariots to chuckwagons; An examination of the racing breeds from thoroughbreds to quarter horses; The role of the trainers, grooms, farriers, track vets, pony riders, outriders, and ...
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Behind the Scenes, Formerly a Slave, By Elizabeth Keckley, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in The White House, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (sometimes spelled Keckly; February 1818 - May 1907)[2] was a former slave who became a successful ...
... Sundance in October of 2000 . Stacy Peralta DOGTOWN AND Z - BOYZ " takes Park City by storm .. non - fictio Ro Stacy wins Best Documentry Director at the Sundance Film Festival 2001 . 2001 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Flying High Out of the ...
Abbott encourages readers to ponder how much of their daily routines is really their ideas, and how much of it is a result of American pop-culture medias influence.
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 ...
Behind the Scenes: from Hollywood to Broadway
This book gives sketches into the lives of the first 50 women who held the position of First Lady of South Carolina.