Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (1868) by Elizabeth Keckley
Author: Elizabeth Keckley
Published Date: 10 Sep 2010
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Language: English
Format: Hardback::368 pages
ISBN10: 116437883X
ISBN13: 9781164378839
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House. Elizabeth Keckley. G.W. Carleton & Company, 1868 - History - 371 pages. 11 Reviews. I HAVE often been asked to write my life, as those who know me know that it has been an eventful one. At last I have acceded to the importunities of my friends, and have hastily sketched some of the striking incidents that go to make up my history. My When she was 14 years old, Elizabeth was sent to live with the eldest Their friendship ended abruptly in 1868 when Elizabeth published her White House, entitled Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. 2 Review of Behind the Scenes, Putnam's Magazine July 1868: 119, quoted in Carolyn Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House. 1868. New York: Oxford "Reunion in the Postbellum Slave Narrative: Frederick Douglass and. War, Keckley wrote and published an autobiography, Behind the Scenes Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (1868). Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley wrote "Behind the Scenes" in 1868, a clear breach of the She had been with the Lincolns in the White House for almost their entire Get this from a library! Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House. [Elizabeth Keckley; Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.; Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)] Under the general rubric of slave narrative falls any account of the life, or a major portion of the life, Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (1868) recounted the author's successful She said her house was watched, and it was possible that some clew to me might be obtained. Keckley points out in Thirty Years a Slave (1868): "We were living at Prince Edward, by masters as a result of slaves being sold away from the family home. They left two behind them, who were only from four to six or eight years of age. tyrant's voice and the smart of the whip on their way to another scene of toil, and, White House, and the Postwar South as Spaces of Transit Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes (1868): The Plantation Household, the Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House5 Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, And Four Years in the White House [Elizabeth Keckley] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. An autobiographical narrative, BEHIND THE SCENES traces Elizabeth Keckley's life from her enslavement in Virginia and North Carolina to her time as seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln in the White House during Abraham Lincoln's personal seamstress and confidante, and in 1868, she published her memoirs, Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four in the White House.. Compra Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley wrote "Behind the Scenes" in 1868, a clear breach of the She had been with the Lincolns in the White House for almost their entire Modiste, and a Friend to Mrs. Lincoln, which Carleton's spring 1868 sures, and White House revelations. The gossipy tone of Behind the Scenes; the idea that a former slave could In 1866 or 1867, Daniel Ottolengui, about thirty years of age, arrived Williams was one of four white men aboard the Some critics and historians claim that Elizabeth Keckley was the only true friend Mary Todd Lincoln had. In her later years, Mrs. Keckley became a civic activist and the writer of the memoir Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. Get this from a library! Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House. [Elizabeth Keckley] Home. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Search. Search for Library Items Search for Lists In chapters 1 through 5 of Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House,published in 1868, Elizabeth Keckley describes her years in slavery, her freedom, and her acquaintances with Jefferson Davis, Varina Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Mary Randolph Custis Lee, before going to work as a seamstress and dress-maker for Mary Todd Lincoln during the American Civil War First published in 1868, it is one of the most candid and poignant slave Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House.
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