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Behind the Scenes - or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R483
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Behind the Scenes - or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Paperback, New Ed): Elizabeth Keckley

Behind the Scenes - or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Paperback, New Ed)

Elizabeth Keckley; Introduction by James Olney

Series: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

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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. As public drama privately experienced, Keckley's work presents Jefferson Davis and his wife, Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, 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.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Release date: February 1990
First published: December 1989
Authors: Elizabeth Keckley
Introduction by: James Olney
Dimensions: 163 x 116 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 408
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-506084-3
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
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LSN: 0-19-506084-9
Barcode: 9780195060843

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