Behind the Scenes
Author: Elizabeth Keckley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780195060843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart 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.