Behind the scenes in the Lincoln White House : memoirs of an African-American seamstress /
Keckley, Elizabeth, ca. 1818-1907.
Behind the scenes in the Lincoln White House : memoirs of an African-American seamstress / Elizabeth Keckley. - Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2006 - 156 p. : ill. 22 cm.
Unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1868 by G.W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, New York, under the title Behind the scenes, Or Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House.
A former slave who was a dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, Keckley witnessed the happy times as well as the tragic events that unfolded within the Lincoln White House. www.alibris.com
486451224
African American women--United States
Dressmakers--United States
Slaves
Women slaves--United States
E 457.15 / .K236 2006
Behind the scenes in the Lincoln White House : memoirs of an African-American seamstress / Elizabeth Keckley. - Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2006 - 156 p. : ill. 22 cm.
Unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1868 by G.W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, New York, under the title Behind the scenes, Or Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House.
A former slave who was a dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, Keckley witnessed the happy times as well as the tragic events that unfolded within the Lincoln White House. www.alibris.com
486451224
African American women--United States
Dressmakers--United States
Slaves
Women slaves--United States
E 457.15 / .K236 2006
