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Product Description: Slavery in AmericaTrue Stories of American SlavesBehind the ScenesBy Elizabeth KeckleyFormerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and friend to Mrs. Abraham LincolnElizabeth 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...read more

Product Description: In the recent blockbuster and award-winning movie Lincoln, viewers saw in the White House a mullatto woman who was employed by the Lincoln's as Mrs. Lincoln's housemaid and attendant. This woman was no film-fiction – she was Elizabeth Keckley, who had spent thirty years of her life as a slave before ultimately working for the White House...read more

Product Description: 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 seamstress, civic activist and author in Washington, DC...read more

Born a slave in Virginia, Elizabeth Keckley (c. 1824–1907) went on to become a talented dressmaker and designer, with some twenty employees of her own. Catering to the wives, daughters, and sisters of Washington's political elite, she included among her clientele Mary Todd Lincoln, who became her close friend and confidante.Keckley's behind-the-scenes view of wartime Washington not only provides fascinating glimpses of nineteenth-century America, but also offers candid observations on interracial relationships and the free black middle class. Here also are absorbing details of life in the Lincoln White House, as well as an insider's perspective on the men who made Civil War politics and the women who influenced them. A touching and revelatory work, filled with incisive social commentary, this inspiring narrative by an admirable woman will be an important addition to the libraries of anyone interested in African-American and Civil War history.

Product Description: In "Behind The Scenes", Elizabeth Keckley tells of the 30 years she spent in slavery, how she gained her freedom and of her remarkable friendship with Mary Todd Lincoln for whom she worked as a seamstress in the Lincoln White House.

A seamstress and friend of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln describes her days as a slave and her memories of the martyred President and his First Lady