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Behind the Scenes: Formerly a Slave, but More Recently Modiste, and Friend to Mrs. Lincoln; Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Lakeside Classics Series, Volume 96)

Frances Smith Foster

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Formerly a slaveBorn into slavery, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley rose to a position of respect as a talented dressmaker to the political elite of Washington, D.C., and a confidante of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. In this unusual memoir, Keckley offers a rare, behind-the-scenes view of the formal and informal networks that African Americans established among themselves.

Language: English

Pages: 319

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1868

Behind the Scenes: Formerly a Slave, but More Recently Modiste, and Friend to Mrs. Lincoln; Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Lakeside Classics Series, Volume 96)

Frances Smith Foster

0/5 ( ratings)

Formerly a slaveBorn into slavery, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley rose to a position of respect as a talented dressmaker to the political elite of Washington, D.C., and a confidante of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. In this unusual memoir, Keckley offers a rare, behind-the-scenes view of the formal and informal networks that African Americans established among themselves.

Language: English

Pages: 319

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1868

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