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Author Keckley, Elizabeth, approximately 1818-1907, author.

Title Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House / by Elizabeth Keckly.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library : 2011.
Distributed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Press, 2011.

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Edition DocSouth books ed.
Description 1 online resource (164 pages) : portrait, facsimiles
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Note Prepared using the transcribed electronic text used in the "Documenting the American South" (DocSouth)--Project.
Originally published: New York : G.W. Carleton and Company, 1868.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents ""About This Edition""; ""Summary""; ""CONTENTS.""; ""PREFACE.""; ""BEHIND THE SCENES.""; ""WHERE I WAS BORN.""; ""GIRLHOOD AND ITS SORROWS.""; ""HOW I GAINED MY FREEDOM.""; ""In the Family of Senator Jefferson Davis.""; ""MY INTRODUCTION TO MRS. LINCOLN.""; ""WILLIE LINCOLN'S DEATH-BED.""; ""WASHINGTON IN 1862-3.""; ""CANDID OPINIONS.""; ""BEHIND THE SCENES.""; ""THE SECOND INAUGURATION.""; ""THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.""; ""MRS. LINCOLN LEAVES THE WHITE HOUSE.""; ""THE ORIGIN OF THE RIVALRY BETWEEN MR. DOUGLAS AND MR. LINCOLN.""; ""OLD FRIENDS.""
""THE SECRET HISTORY OF MRS. LINCOLN'S WARDROBE IN NEW YORK.""""APPENDIX.""; ""LETTERS FROM MRS. LINCOLN TO MRS. KECKLEY.""
Summary This is the life story of Elizabeth Keckley, a shrewd entrepreneur who, while enslaved, raised enough money to purchase freedom for herself and her son. Keckley moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked as a seamstress and dressmaker for the wives of influential politicians. She eventually became a close confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. Several years after President Lincoln's assassination, when Mrs Lincoln's financial situation had worsened, Keckley helped organize an auction of the former first lady's dresses, eliciting strong criticism from members of the Washington elite.
Genre/Form Biography.
Subject Relations with African Americans. (OCoLC)fst01354226
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. (OCoLC)fst00030184
Dressmakers -- United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Keckley, Elizabeth, approximately 1818-1907. (OCoLC)fst01828171
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography.
African American women. (OCoLC)fst00799438
Keckley, Elizabeth, approximately 1818-1907.
Enslaved women -- United States -- Biography.
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882. (OCoLC)fst00017436
Dressmakers. (OCoLC)fst00897998
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
African American women -- Biography.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Relations with African Americans.
Enslaved persons. (OCoLC)fst01120522
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 -- Relations with African Americans.
Women slaves. (OCoLC)fst01178532
Added Author University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library.
Added Title Behind the scenes
Behind the scenes
Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House
Other Form: Print version: Keckley, Elizabeth, approximately 1818-1907. Behind the scenes, or, thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House. DocSouth Books ed. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library : Distributed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Press, 2011 9780807869635 (OCoLC)789248626
ISBN 9780807869642 (electronic bk.)
0807869643 (electronic bk.)
9781469602905 (electronic bk.)
1469602903 (electronic bk.)
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