Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) (Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House)

by Elizabeth Keckley

This fascinating autobiography describes one woman's life as a slave and subsequently her four years in Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, a seamstress and dressmaker who was only a few years removed from being a `slave for life', we see historical figures and events ranging from the Lincolns in their private chambers to the return to Richmond after the fall of the Confederate capital.

• ISBN10: 1618950363
• ISBN13: 9781618950369
• Publish Date: 27 January 2012 (first published 28 July 1988)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Bibliotech Press
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 152
• Language: English