Behind the Scenes

or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

By:

Elizabeth Keckley

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

The Schomburg Library of nineteenth-century black women writers

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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.

Release date Australia

February 15th, 1990

Author

Elizabeth Keckley

Series

The Schomburg Library of nineteenth-century black women writers

Contributor

Introduction by James Olney

Pages

408

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

frontispiece

Dimensions

116x163x28

ISBN-13

9780195060843

Product ID

27169976

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