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