| Description |
xxxvi, 371 pages : 1 portrait ; 17 cm. |
| Series |
The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century black women writers |
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Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers.
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| Contents |
Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction, Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a slave and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. As public drama privately experienced, Keckley's work presents Jefferson Davis and his wife, Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, and even Stephen Douglas and "Mrs. Senator Douglas" in the foreground, with the war, and slavery as the issue that precipitated it, in the background. Through the eyes of this black woman -- an ex-slave, seamstress, and dressmaker -- we see a wide range of historical figures and events of the antebellum South, the Washington of the Civil War years, and the final stages of the war. |
| Note |
Facsim of ed. published: New York : Carleton, 1868. -Originally published: 1988. |
| Subject |
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography.
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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| Indexed Term |
United States |
| Subject |
Keckley, Elizabeth, approximately 1818-1907.
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| Local Subject |
Black persons Enslaved persons
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| Subject |
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882.
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| Indexed Term |
Black persons Enslaved persons |
| ISBN |
0195060849 paperback £8.95 |
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0195052676 set |
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