AddALL.com - Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) 0195060849 9780195060843

Don't forget to bookmark this web site !!

Used & Out of Print Books | Contact us | Home

Browse and Compare Price at 40+ Sites and 20,000+ Stores!!

Find more info., search and price compare for
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
by Elizabeth Keckley
Binding: Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Weight: 0.5 pound
Dimension: H: 1.1 x L: 6.2 x W: 4.6 inches
ISBN 10: 0195060849
ISBN 13: 9780195060843
Click here to search for this book and compare price at 40+ bookstores with AddALL.com!

If you cannot find this book in our new and in print search, be sure to try our used and out of print search too!

Book Description:
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 (1861-1865). 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.

Shipping Destination:
State: (US only)
Display in:
Search by:


Searching for Out of Print Books? [Click Here]

[ For web hosting, AddALL recommend Liquidweb]