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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Keckley, Elizabeth
Olney, James

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Series: The ^Aschomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

Biographies GeneralBlack American StudiesCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 0195060849
ISBN13: 9780195060843
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 14 1989
Pages: 404
Weight: 0.67
Height: 1.07 Width: 4.61 Depth: 6.38
Language: English
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.

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