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Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Penguin Classics)
by Elizabeth Keckley
Binding: Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Weight: 0.3 pound
Dimension: H: 0.6 x L: 7.6 x W: 5.1 inches
ISBN 10: 0143039245
ISBN 13: 9780143039242
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Originally published in 1868 when it was attacked as an 'indecent book' authored by a 'traitorous eavesdropper' Behind the Scenes is the story of Elizabeth Keckley, who began her life as a slave and became a privileged witness to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Keckley bought her freedom at the age of thirty seven and set up a successful dressmaking business in Washington, D.C. She became modiste to Mary Todd Lincoln and in time her friend and confidante, a relationship that continued after Lincoln s assassination. In documenting that friendship often using the First Lady s own letters Behind the Scenes fuses the slave narrative with the political memoir. It remains extraordinary for its poignancy, candor, and historical perspective.

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