Behind the Scenes

Name: Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
ISBN: 9780195060843

Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Elizabeth Keckley

1868·168 pages·Nonfiction

Biography Historical Fiction

classics memoir

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. Through the eyes of this black woman, 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.

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