false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175523616m/522951.jpg 522951 12 Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction, Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a slave and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War (1861-1865). As public drama privately experienced, Keckley's work presents Jefferson Davis and his wife, Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, and even Stephen Douglas and "Mrs. Senator Douglas" in the foreground, with the war, and slavery as the issue that precipitated it, in the background. Through the eyes of this black woman--an ex-slave, seamstress, and dressmaker--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. 510830 1988 Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) total:40|5:12|4:16|3:11|2:1|1:0| 40 159 82 15 4 0 false false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 19:11:22 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 19:25:10 -0700 2009
This was written by Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave and the dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd L...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 08:47:14 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 11:50:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Aug 21 19:32:59 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 19:36:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 13 09:20:13 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 09:22:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 21 01:01:28 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 11 15:37:11 -0700 2009 Elizabeth Keckley was a slave, w/help from friends bought her freedom and moved to D.C. A sucessful seamstress she went to work for Sen. Jefferson Davis' wife, when they moved to Virginia a few months before the war started Mrs. Keckley did work for other sena...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 24 16:16:36 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 16:19:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 09:21:37 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 08:19:44 -0700 2009 perspective nonetheless.]]> 3 0 false false Mon Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 09:30:58 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 10:43:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu May 01 20:41:43 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 20:56:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Apr 18 13:18:50 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 13:24:03 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jul 14 17:31:41 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 17:34:19 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Jun 25 13:24:52 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 13:25:49 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Mon Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 09:23:37 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 22:32:46 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Dec 09 13:25:03 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 09 13:25:54 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Wed Aug 13 22:30:35 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 01 17:51:21 -0800 2009 ]]> 0 0 false false Wed Nov 18 11:40:41 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 11:40:41 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Nov 05 04:44:31 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 04:44:31 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Nov 01 09:01:05 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 09:01:14 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 26 00:15:52 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 00:15:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 23 10:49:21 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 10:49:21 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=522951