Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House.: Formerly a Slave Friend to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. by Elizabeth Keckley

Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House.: Formerly a Slave Friend to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln.

Elizabeth Keckley

102 pages paperback 1868

49 editions

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Early lifeElizabeth Keckley was born into slavery in February 1818, in Dinwiddie County Court House, Dinwiddie, Virginia, just south of Petersburg. An only child, her mother Agnes was a light-skinned house slave, whose white ancestors were aristoc...

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