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Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House - Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Author: Elizabeth Keckley

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 (1861-1865). As public drama privately experienced, Keckley's work presents Jefferson Davis and his wife, Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Li...  more »ncoln, 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.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780195060843
ISBN-10: 0195060849
Publication Date: 12/14/1989
Pages: 414
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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P.J. C. (mizPJ) reviewed Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) on 5/4/2007 + 172 more book reviews

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Interesting look at history from an angle not expected.

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