Behind the scenes
By: Elizabeth Keckley, ca. 1818-1907
Contributors: Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Correspondence; Presidents' spouses; African Americans; Biography; Slaves; Social conditions; Freed persons; Social life and customs; Plantation life; History; Personal narratives; Slaves' writings, American
Other titles: Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House.; North American slave narratives.
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This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South, beginnings to 1920.  It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.

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Transcribed from: Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House / by Elizabeth Keckley, formerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and friend to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. New York : G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, 1868. 371 p. : port. ; 19 cm.

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