Elizabeth keckley autobiography books

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A novel about the life and legacy of former slave, Elizabeth Keckley; America's first and foremost couturier in recorded history, entrepreneur, and official White House dressmaker, confidante & .


elizabeth keckley autobiography books

Elizabeth keckley autobiography books

Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (February –May ) was a former slave turned successful seamstress who is most notably known as being Mary Todd Lincoln's personal modiste and .

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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 .
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After the American Civil War, Keckley wrote and published an autobiography, Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House ().