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  • Behind the Scenes

    Elizabeth Keckley

    Paperback (HardPress Publishing, Aug. 14, 2019)
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  • Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley

    Elizabeth Keckley

    Hardcover (Cosimo Classics, March 15, 1641)
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  • Behind the Scenes

    Elizabeth Keckley

    Paperback (BiblioBazaar, Oct. 9, 2008)
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  • Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

    Elizabeth H. Keckley

    Hardcover (Oxford University Press, April 1, 1988)
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  • Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House.: FORMERLY A SLAVE FRIEND TO MRS. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

    Elizabeth Keckley

    Paperback (Independently published, July 23, 2020)
    Early lifeElizabeth Keckley was born into slavery in February 1818, in Dinwiddie County Court House, Dinwiddie, Virginia, just south of Petersburg. An only child, her mother Agnes was a light-skinned house slave, whose white ancestors were aristocrats. Her mother, nicknamed "Aggy", had learned to read and write, even though it was illegal for enslaved people. She made clothes for 82 people, 12 members of the Burwell family and 70 slaves. Keckley learned that her father was Armistead Burwell from her mother just before she died.[a] The nature of the relationship between Agnes and Burwell is unknown. He permitted Agnes to marry George Pleasant Hobbs, a literate enslaved man who lived and worked at a neighbor's house during Keckley's early childhood. When Hobbs' owner moved far away, Hobbs was separated from Agnes. Although they were never reunited, Agnes and George corresponded for many years. As an adult, Elizabeth Keckley noted "the most precious mementos of my existence are the faded old letters that he wrote, full of love, and always hoping that the future would bring brighter days
  • Behind the Scenes

    Elizabeth Keckley

    First published in 1868, “Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, And Four Years in the White House” is the intimate autobiography of Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a former slave who became a successful seamstress and eventual close confidante and friend of Mary Todd Lincoln. Keckley was born into slavery in 1818 and suffered great hardship and abuse at the hands of her master and the white citizens of Hillsborough, North Carolina. She earned enough money as a talented dressmaker to buy freedom for herself and her son in 1855 and eventually settled in Washington D. C., where she sewed dresses for the wives of many famous politicians, such as Jefferson Davis’s wife, Varina. It was this work that brought her into contact with the newly elected President Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary. Keckley would go on to develop a close working and personal relationship with Mrs. Lincoln that spanned decades. Controversial after its publication for the deeply personal portrait of the private lives of the Lincolns, “Behind the Scenes” remains a fascinating and historically significant account of slavery, the challenges facing African-American women during the 19th century, and the daily life of one of America’s most important presidents and his family.
  • Behind The Scenes: Or, Thirty Years A Slave, And Four Years In The White House.

    Elizabeth Keckley

    Paperback (Lector House, July 21, 2020)
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  • Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

    Elizabeth Keckley

    Paperback (Sagwan Press, Feb. 5, 2018)
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  • Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House

    Elizabeth Keckley

    Paperback (Bibliotech Press, Jan. 6, 2020)
    Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (sometimes spelled Keckly; February 1818 – May 1907) was a former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil activist, and author in Washington, DC. She was best known as the personal modiste and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady. Keckley had moved to Washington in 1860 after buying her freedom and that of her son in St. Louis. She created an independent business in the capital based on clients who were the wives of the government elite. Among them were Varina Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis; and Mary Anna Custis Lee, wife of Robert E. Lee.After the American Civil War, Keckley wrote and published an autobiography, Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (1868). It was both a slave narrative and a portrait of the First Family, especially Mary Todd Lincoln, and is considered controversial for breaking privacy about them. It was also her claim as a businesswoman to be part of the new mixed-race, middle-class that was visible among the leadership of the black community.Keckley's relationship with Mary Todd Lincoln, the President's wife, was notable for its personal quality and intimacy, as well as its endurance over time. (wikipedia.org)
  • Behind the Scenes

    Elizabeth Keckley

    Paperback (Independently published, Sept. 3, 2020)
    Book Excerptng was eternal. The cloud had no silver lining, but I trust that it will be all silver in heaven. We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter. At the grave, at least, we should be permitted to lay our burdens down, that a new world, a world of brightness, may open to us. The light that is denied us here should grow into a flood of effulgence beyond the dark, mysterious shadows of death. Deep as was the distress of my mother in parting with my father, her sorrow did not screen her from insult. My old mistress said to her: "Stop your nonsense; there is no necessity for you putting on airs. Your husband is not the only slave that has been sold from his family, and you are not the only one that has had to part. There are plenty more men about here, and if you want a husband so badly, stop your crying and go and find another." To these unfeeling words my mother made no
  • Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House: Premium Ebook

    Elizabeth Keckley

    eBook (FV Éditions, April 29, 2019)
    *** Premium Ebook ***Former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil activist, and author, Elizabeth Keckley was the personal dressmaker for Mary Todd Lincoln. She was also her best friend and confidante. "Behind the Scenes" is about the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, and the happenings in the White House during Lincoln's tenure.
  • Behind the Scenes

    Elizabeth Keckley

    Hardcover (Outlook Verlag, July 30, 2020)
    Reproduction of the original: Behind the Scenes by Elizabeth Keckley