This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

Elizabeth Keckley ‘s rise from slave to White House confidante makes for an involving story that details the cruel and terrible life for those in slavery, and the drive and…

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Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House is both a riveting slave narrative and a fascinating insider's look at the…

The book, Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work…

A former slave who was a dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, Keckley witnessed the happy times as well as the tragic events that unfolded within the Lincoln White…

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This fascinating autobiography describes one woman’s life as a slave and subsequently her four years as seamstress in Lincoln’s White House during the Civil War, offering a unique view of…