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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

by Keckley, Elizabeth

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0195060849
ISBN 13
9780195060843
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Oxford University Press. Used - Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

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Originally published in 1868—when 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 of Abraham Lincoln. Keckley bought her freedom at the age of thirty-seven and set up a successful dressmaking business in Washington, D.C. She became modiste to Mary Todd Lincoln and in time her friend and confidante, a relationship that continued after Lincoln’s assassination. In documenting that friendship—often using the First Lady’s own letters— Behind the Scenes fuses the slave narrative with the political memoir. It remains extraordinary for its poignancy, candor, and historical perspective. First time in Penguin Classics

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Title
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
Author
Keckley, Elizabeth
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0195060849
ISBN 13
9780195060843
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Place of Publication
New York, New York
This edition first published
December 14, 1989

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