Behind the scenes
Subtitle: formerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and a friend to Mrs. Lincoln, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House
By: Elizabeth Keckley ; edited by Frances Smith Foster.
Contributors: Foster, Frances Smith.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Keckley, Elizabeth, ca. 1818-1907.; Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 -- Relations with African Americans.; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Relations with African Americans.; African American women -- Biography.; Women slaves -- United States -- Biography.; Dressmakers -- United States -- Biography.; Slaves -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House
Description: "Born into slavery, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (ca. 1824-1907) rose to a position of respect as a talented dressmaker and designer 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, as well as an insider's perspective of the men who made Civil War politics and the women who influenced them."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-263) and index.
Originally published: New York : G.W. Carleton, 1868; this edition originally published: Chicago : R.R. Donnelly, 1998.