Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes PDF Author: Elizabeth Keckley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195060843
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Book Description
Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a salve 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.