Behind the Scenes; Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House - The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

Elizabeth Keckley

Hardback (28 Jul 1988)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This fascinating autobiography describes one woman's life as a slave and subsequently her four years in Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, a seamstress and dressmaker who was only a few years removed from being a `slave for life', we see historical figures and events ranging from the Lincolns in their private chambers to the return to Richmond after the fall of the Confederate capital.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780195052596
Publisher:	OUP OXFORD
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Pub date:	28 Jul 1988
DEWEY:	973.70922
DEWEY edition:	19
Language:	English
Number of pages:	371
Weight:	658g
Height:	140mm
Width:	216mm
Spine width:	27mm