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Click to enlargeBehind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House: Memoirs of an African-American Seamstress

Elizabeth Keckley
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ISBN: 0486451224
Page Count: 160
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
Keckley was a former slave who became a successful Washington, D.C., dressmaker — and a confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. This intimate bond allowed her to witness the happy times as well as the tragic events that unfolded within the Lincoln White House. A remarkable firsthand narrative of both African-American and Civil War history.
Reprint of Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House, G. W. Carleton & Co., New York, 1868.

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