Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Keckley, Elizabeth
ISBN 10: 0195060849 ISBN 13: 9780195060843
Published by Oxford University Press, 1989
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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 (1861-1865). As public drama privately experienced, Keckley's work presents Jefferson Davis and his wife, Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, and even Stephen Douglas and "Mrs. Senator Douglas" in the foreground, with the war, and slavery as the issue that precipitated it, in the background. Through the eyes of this black woman--an ex-slave, seamstress, and dressmaker--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.
About the Author: James Olney is at Louisiana State University.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave,...
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket