TY - BOOK AU - Keckley, Elizabeth, TI - Behind the scenes in the Lincoln White House: memoirs of an African-American seamstress SN - 486451224 AV - E 457.15 .K236 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Mineola, N.Y. PB - Dover Publications KW - African American women KW - United States KW - Dressmakers KW - Slaves KW - Women slaves N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -