Title Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House / by Elizabeth Keckly

Edition DocSouth books ed Published Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library : Distributed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (164 pages) : portrait, facsimiles Contents About This Edition -- Summary -- CONTENTS. -- PREFACE. -- BEHIND THE SCENES. -- WHERE I WAS BORN. -- GIRLHOOD AND ITS SORROWS. -- HOW I GAINED MY FREEDOM. -- In the Family of Senator Jefferson Davis. -- MY INTRODUCTION TO MRS. LINCOLN. -- WILLIE LINCOLN'S DEATH-BED. -- WASHINGTON IN 1862-3. -- CANDID OPINIONS. -- BEHIND THE SCENES. -- THE SECOND INAUGURATION. -- THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. -- MRS. LINCOLN LEAVES THE WHITE HOUSE. -- THE ORIGIN OF THE RIVALRY BETWEEN MR. DOUGLAS AND MR. LINCOLN. -- OLD FRIENDS THE SECRET HISTORY OF MRS. LINCOLN'S WARDROBE IN NEW YORK. APPENDIX. -- LETTERS FROM MRS. LINCOLN TO MRS. KECKLEY Summary This 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 President Lincoln's assassination, when Mrs Lincoln's financial situation had worsened, Keckley helped organize an auction of the former first lady's dresses, eliciting strong criticism from members of the Washington elite Notes Prepared using the transcribed electronic text used in the "Documenting the American South" (DocSouth)--Project Originally published: New York : G.W. Carleton & Co., 1868 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Subject Keckley, Elizabeth, approximately 1818-1907. Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 -- Relations with African Americans Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Relations with African Americans Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 Keckley, Elizabeth, approximately 1818-1907 Keckley, Elizabeth, approximately 1818-1907 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 African American women -- Biography Enslaved women -- United States -- Biography Dressmakers -- United States -- Biography Enslaved persons -- United States -- Biography HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African American women Dressmakers Relations with African Americans Enslaved persons Enslaved women United States Genre/Form Biographies Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. ISBN 9780807869642 0807869643 9781469602905 1469602903 0807869635 9780807869635

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