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164 pages • first pub 1868 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781605209302
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Edition Pub Date: 01 November 2009
Description
ELIZABETH HOBBS KECKLEY (1818-1907), dressmaker to the elite of Washington D.C. on the eve of the Civil War, was, remarkably, a free black woman who'd purchased her emancipation through the fruits of her own hard work. In 1861, she became the pers...
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164 pages • first pub 1868 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781605209302
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Edition Pub Date: 01 November 2009
Description
ELIZABETH HOBBS KECKLEY (1818-1907), dressmaker to the elite of Washington D.C. on the eve of the Civil War, was, remarkably, a free black woman who'd purchased her emancipation through the fruits of her own hard work. In 1861, she became the pers...