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The Elizabeth Keckley Reader, Volume 2

The Elizabeth Keckley Reader: Volume Two, edited by Sheila Smith McKoy, offers a collection of essays and other works inspired by the life of Elizabeth Keckley, a slave in Hillsborough…

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Elizabeth Keckley

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…

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Elizabeth Keckley

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Elizabeth Keckley

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…

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

Elizabeth Keckley

Originally published: New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., 1868.

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Behind the Scenes: Or, thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House

Elizabeth Keckley

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.

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Behind The Scenes: Or Thirty Years A Slave And Four Years In The White House (1868)

Elizabeth Keckley

Born into slavery, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (ca. 1824-1907) rose to a position of respect as a talented dressmaker and designer to the political elite of Washington, D.C., and a confidante…

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Behind The Scenes: Or, Thirty Years A Slave, And Four Years In The White House.

Elizabeth Keckley

Behind The Scenes: Or, Thirty Years A Slave, And Four Years In The White House. This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution…

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

Elizabeth Keckley

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…

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Elizabeth Keckley

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

ELIZABETH HOBBS KECKLEY (1818-1907), dressmaker to the elite of Washington D.C. on the eve of the Civil War, was, remarkably, a free black woman who’d purchased her emancipation through the…

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Elizabeth Keckley

ELIZABETH HOBBS KECKLEY (1818-1907), dressmaker to the elite of Washington D.C. on the eve of the Civil War, was, remarkably, a free black woman who’d purchased her emancipation through the…

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

Elizabeth Keckley

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…

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

Elizabeth Keckley

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…

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Elizabeth Keckley

Originally published: New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., 1868.

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Elizabeth Keckley

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…

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Elizabeth Keckley

Title: Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House.Author: Elizabeth KeckleyPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana…

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Elizabeth Keckley

Behind the Scenes: or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House was first published in 1868 and is considered one of the most candid and poignant…

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Elizabeth Keckley

Behind the Scenes: or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House was first published in 1868 and is considered one of the most candid and poignant…

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By Elizabeth Keckley

Born a slave in Virginia, Elizabeth Keckley (c. 1824-1907) went on to become a talented dressmaker and designer, with some twenty employees of her own. Catering to the wives, daughters…

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By Elizabeth Keckley

Born a slave in Virginia, Elizabeth Keckley (c. 1824-1907) went on to become a talented dressmaker and designer, with some twenty employees of her own. Catering to the wives, daughters…

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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…

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Elizabeth Keckley

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Elizabeth Keckley

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Behind The Scenes: Or Thirty Years A Slave And Four Years In The White House (1868)

Elizabeth Keckley

Born into slavery, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (ca. 1824-1907) rose to a position of respect as a talented dressmaker and designer to the political elite of Washington, D.C., and a confidante…

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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…

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Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House

Elizabeth Keckley

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Behind the scenes: Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House

Elizabeth Keckley

Behind the scenes - Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of…

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The BEHIND THE SCENES - 30 Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House: The Controversial Autobiography of Mrs Lincoln’s Dressmaker That Shook the World

Elizabeth Keckley

Behind the Scenes (1868) is both a slave narrative and a portrait of the First Family of America, especially of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln. After the assassination…

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Behind the Scenes

Elizabeth Keckley

2017 Reprint of 1868 Edition. An autobiographical narrative, Behind the Scenes traces Elizabeth Keckley's life from her enslavement in Virginia and North Carolina to her time as seamstress to Mary…

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Elizabeth Keckley

An autobiographical narrative, BEHIND THE SCENES traces Elizabeth Keckley’s life from her enslavement in Virginia and North Carolina to her time as seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln in the White…

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Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House: Memoirs of an African-American Seamstress

Elizabeth Keckley

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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Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House: True Story of a Black Women Who Worked for Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Davis

Elizabeth Keckley

Behind the Scenes is 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…

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Behind the Scenes: Formerly a Slave, but More Recently Modiste, and Friend to Mrs. Lincoln; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Elizabeth H. Keckley

Born into slavery, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley rose to a position of respect as a talented dressmaker and designer to the political elite of Washington, DC, and a confidante of First…

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Elizabeth Keckley

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Behind the Scenes: Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (1868)

Elizabeth Keckley

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…

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Elizabeth Keckley

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The Elizabeth Keckley Reader, Vol. 1: Writing Self, Writing Nation

he Elizabeth Keckley Reader: Volume One–Writing Self, Writing Nation, offers a collection of essays and other works inspired by the life of Elizabeth Keckley, a slave in Hillsborough, N.C., who…

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Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker: The Unlikely Friendship of Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Todd Lincoln

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From fashion designer to abolitionist to caretaker, this is the story of dressmaker Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a forgotten figure whose influence ran deep at the very heart of Abraham Lincoln’s…

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Elizabeth Keckley

Elizabeth Keckley’s rise from slave to White House confidante details the cruel and terrible life for those in slavery, and the drive and determination of a woman who would not…

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Elizabeth Keckley

Elizabeth Keckley’s rise from slave to White House confidante details the cruel and terrible life for those in slavery, and the drive and determination of a woman who would not…

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The BEHIND THE SCENES - 30 Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House: The Controversial Autobiography of Mrs Lincoln’s Dressmaker That Shook the World

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