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Behind the Scenes (Elizabeth Keckley)
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House is an 1868 autobiographical slave narrative by Elizabeth Keckley, a woman born enslaved in Virginia who later became a prominent dressmaker in Washington, D.C. The book joins two kinds of testimony: a record of slavery and sexual coercion in the antebellum South, and an insider memoir of the Lincoln White House during the Civil War. Keckley describes abuse, family separation, skilled labor, the purchase of freedom for herself and her son, and her rise as a professional modiste serving elite women, including Mary Todd Lincoln. Its purpose is not only personal remembrance. It argues for Black female competence, moral authority, and economic agency at a time when public narratives often denied all three. The second half gives unusually intimate views of Mary Lincoln, presidential domestic life, mourning, debt, and reputation. Because of that candor, the book became controversial, yet it remains a major source for African American literature, womens history, and Civil War social history.
- Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0989609278?tag=9natree-20
- Amazon Worldwide Store: https://global.buys.trade/Behind-the-Scenes-Elizabeth-Keckley.html
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- Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/0989609278/
#ElizabethKeckleyslavenarrative #MaryToddLincolnconfidante #Blackwomendressmakingentrepreneurship #LincolnWhiteHousedomesticlife #selfpurchasefromslavery #BehindtheScenes
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House is an 1868 autobiographical slave narrative by Elizabeth Keckley, a woman born enslaved in Virginia who later became a prominent dressmaker in Washington, D.C. The book joins two kinds of testimony: a record of slavery and sexual coercion in the antebellum South, and an insider memoir of the Lincoln White House during the Civil War. Keckley describes abuse, family separation, skilled labor, the purchase of freedom for herself and her son, and her rise as a professional modiste serving elite women, including Mary Todd Lincoln. Its purpose is not only personal remembrance. It argues for Black female competence, moral authority, and economic agency at a time when public narratives often denied all three. The second half gives unusually intimate views of Mary Lincoln, presidential domestic life, mourning, debt, and reputation. Because of that candor, the book became controversial, yet it remains a major source for African American literature, womens history, and Civil War social history.
