Behind the scenes. By Elizabeth Keckley. Or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House.
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Lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865
United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865
African americans, history
Slaves
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A former slave's intimate memoir of the Lincoln White House, a timeless addition to the canons of African American and Civil War literatureOriginally published in 1868-when it was attacked as an "indecent book" authored by a "traitorous eavesdropper"-Behind the Scenes is the story of Elizabeth Keckl…
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