num_pages: 404
description: Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a slave and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, we see a wide range of historical figures and events of the antebellum South, the Washington of the Civil War years, and the final stages of the war.
language: English
title: Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
titlecomplete: Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
genres: African American, Biography, Classics, History, Autobiography, American History, Historical, Nonfiction, Civil War, Memoir
ratings_count: 3712
publisher: Oxford University Press