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

Zusatztext `Invaluable ... Elizabeth Keckley's memoir of her life as a White House dressmaker for Mary Todd Lincoln ... [is a] curious gem'New York Times Book Review Klappentext Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a salve 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. Zusammenfassung This fascinating autobiography describes one woman's life as a slave and subsequently her four years in Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, a seamstress and dressmaker who was only a few years removed from being a `slave for life', we see historical figures and events including the Lincolns in their private chambers and the return to Richmond after the fall of the Confederate capital.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Keckley
• Assisted by: James Olney (Introduction), Olney James (Introduction)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.12.1989
• EAN: 9780195060843
• ISBN: 978-0-19-506084-3
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers; Schomburg Library of Nineteent; The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers; Schomburg Library of Nineteent
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Ethnic Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Autobiography: historical, political & military, United States of America, USA, Autobiography: historical, political and military, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional