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

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

Elizabeth Keckley

404 pages • first pub 1868 (editions)

nonfiction biography history memoir informative medium-paced
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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. Through the eyes of this black woman, w...

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