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Product Identifiers
PublisherMartino FINE Books
ISBN-101684221129
ISBN-139781684221127
eBay Product ID (ePID)13038688937
Product Key Features
Book TitleBehind the Scenes : Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
TopicSlavery, Women, Presidents & Heads of State, Historical, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, African American
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorElizabeth Keckley
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight9.3 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal973.709
Synopsis2017 Reprint of 1868 Edition. An autobiographical narrative, Behind the Scenes traces Elizabeth Keckley's life from her enslavement in Virginia and North Carolina to her time as seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln in the White House during Abraham Lincoln's administration. It was quite controversial at the time of its release--an uncompromising work that transgressed Victorian boundaries between public and private life, and lines of race, gender, and society. Keckley's first 30 years were spent as a slave, and the cruelties and injustices of her life are related clearly and succinctly. This enlightening memoir recounts how she was beaten and how she became a dressmaker to support her master and his family, how determined she was to purchase freedom for herself and her son, how her friends in St. Louis came to her aid, how she became Mary Todd Lincoln's dressmaker and close friend, and her perspectives and experiences from her inside view of Lincoln's White House. Keckley emerges as a calm and confident person who speaks of a very tumultuous period of American history.
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