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Behind the Scenes: or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years int he White House was first published in 1868 and is considered one of the most candid and poignant slave narratives. Author Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley writes about her teenage years, working as a slave for the Rev. Robert Burwell in Hillsborough, NC. He is thought by many historians to have been Keckley's half-brother. The Burwells had twelve children and ran an academy for girls. She writes about mistreatment and violence visited upon her by Rev. and Mrs. Burwell, and the unwelcome sexual advances and eventual rape by one of the town's white citizens. After Keckley gave birth to a son, she and her baby were sent to live with Burwel's sister.
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Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley was born into slavery in Virginia in 1818. She endured abuse and hardship, and finally was able to purchase her freedom in the late 1850s. Self-reliant and enterprising, she used her dress-making skills to create a thriving business in Civil War-era Washington, DC. She was the leading modiste, making dresses for the city's most fashionable women, including Mary Todd Lincoln. The two women became friends, until Mrs. Keckley published this memoir in 1868.
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- PublisherWentworth Press
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1360560807
- ISBN 13 9781360560809
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages390
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