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  • Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Cram Edition)
    Elizabeth Keckley
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House' is Elizabeth Keckley’s compelling memoir of her life, offering a ...
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  • Behind the Scenes
    Elizabeth Keckley
    Elizabeth Keckley’s Behind the Scenes is a remarkable memoir of resilience, talent, and proximity to history. Born into slavery, Keckley worked tirelessly to purchase her freedom and later became a successful dressmaker in Washington, D.C. Her skill and discretion eventually led her to serve as personal modiste and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln.In this candid account, Keckley...
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  • Behind the Scenes, Or, Thirty Years and Slave, and Four Years in the White House
    Elizabeth Keckley
    From slavery to the White House. A firsthand look at history. Can one woman’s courage and resilience reveal new perspectives on freedom and power?In Behind the Scenes, Elizabeth Keckley shares her extraordinary journey from enslavement to becoming Mary Todd Lincoln’s confidante and seamstress in the White House. This memoir provides an intimate view of life during the Civil War...
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  • Entre bastidores, o treinta años de esclavitud y cuatro en la Casa Blanca, por Elizabeth Keckley
    Elizabeth Keckley / Carme Manuel Cuenca
    Esta extraordinaria historia fue publicada en abril de 1868 –tres años después del asesinato del presidente Lincoln– y se proyecta en múltiples campos, puesto que, además de ser una autobiografía de la propia autora, Elizabeth Keckley, es una biografía aparentemente reparadora de la dañada reputación de Mary Todd Lincoln, una memoria de la Guerra Civil desde el centro neurálgic...
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  • Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House
    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, and sisters of Washington’s political elite, she included among her clientele Mary Todd Lincoln, who became her close friend and confidante.Keckley’s behind-the-scenes view of wartime Washington...
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  • Behind The Scenes; Or, Thirty Years A Slave, And Four Years In The White House
    Elizabeth Keckley
    A fearless portal to a pivotal era. Behind The Scenes opens a window not merely into a life, but into a nation in motion, where a Virginia slave society meets the forces of abolition, reform, and fierce endurance.Elizabeth Keckley’s memoir unfolds as a lucid, intimate record that blends intimate detail with sweeping history. It sits at the crossroads of historical memoir and sl...
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  • Behind the Scenes
    Elizabeth Keckley
    Elizabeth Keckley reveals the hardships of slavery and the changing political climate in Washington amongst the country’s most powerful couple, Abraham and Mary Lincoln. Keckley had unprecedented access, giving insight into their state during and after the Civil War.Elizabeth Keckley was born into slavery and experienced a traumatic upbringing riddled with physical and sexual ...
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  • Behind the Scenes
    Elizabeth Keckley
    Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (sometimes spelled Keckly; February 1818 – May 1907) was a former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil activist, and author in Washington, DC. She was best known as the personal modiste and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady. Keckley had moved to Washington in 1860 after buying her freedom and that of her son in St. Louis. She cre...
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  • Behind the Scenes
    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 also her claim as a businesswoman to be part of the new mixed-race, middle-class that was visible among the leadership of the black community. Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (1818 - 1907) was a former sl...
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  • The BEHIND THE SCENES - 30 Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
    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 of President Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley the former slave turned confidant and dress maker of Mrs. Lincoln took it upon herself to provide financial support to her by writing this slave narrative. But ...
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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 Todd Lincoln in the White House during Abraham Lincoln's administration. It was quite controversial at the time of its release--an uncompromising work that transgressed Victo...
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  • Behind the Scenes
    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 slave narratives. Author Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley writes about her teenage years, working as a slave for the Rev. Robert Burwell in Hillsborough, NC. He is thought by many historians to have been Keckley s half-brother. Th...
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  • Behind the Scenes
    Elizabeth Keckley
    Elizabeth Keckley’s post-Civil War life story is part slave narrative, part gossip column, part Horatio Alger story. It blends autobiography with - is there a word to describe a biography that disparages its subject? Although Elizabeth Keckley lived longer as a slave than as modiste to First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, most of her engrossing autobiography is devoted to her White Ho...
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  • Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
    Elizabeth Keckley
    Behind the Scenes is the life story of Elizabeth Keckley, a shrewd entrepreneur who, while enslaved, raised enough money to purchase freedom for herself and her son. Keckley moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked as a seamstress and dressmaker for the wives of influential politicians. She eventually became a close confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. Several years after Presid...
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  • Behind the Scenes
    Elizabeth Keckley
    Elizabeth Keckley’s post-Civil War life story is part slave narrative, part gossip column, part Horatio Alger story. It blends autobiography with - is there a word to describe a biography that disparages its subject? Although Elizabeth Keckley lived longer as a slave than as modiste to First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, most of her engrossing autobiography is devoted to her White Ho...
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  • Behind the Scenes - Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White
    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 determination of a woman who would not let others destroy her will. “Behind the Sce ...
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  • Behind the Scenes
    Elizabeth Keckley
    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 is an autobiography of a former slave who obtained her freedom in 1855 at age thirty. The book discusses the reconstruction era. The author describes how being a skillful seamstress led her to become the confidante of Mary Todd Li...
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  • Behind the Scenes Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
    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 fruits of her own hard work. In 1861, she became the personal designer to Mary Todd Lincoln, as well as one of the First Lady’s closest confidantes.Only a few years later, however, that rela...
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  • Behind the Scenes
    Elizabeth Keckley
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    Elizabeth Keckley
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