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

Publication Date : -- | Author : Elizabeth Keckley

Elizabeth Keckley

ISBN: 0195060849

ISBN13: 9780195060843

Book Description

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. Through the eyes of this black woman, 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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