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Elizabeth Keckley

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Dinwiddie, Virginia, The United States

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Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (February 1818 –May 1907) was a former slave turned successful seamstress who is most notably known as being Mary Todd Lincoln's personal modiste and confidante, and the author of her autobiography, Behind the Scenes Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. Mrs. Keckley utilized her intelligence, keen business acumen, and sewing and design skills to arrange and ultimately buy her freedom (and that of her son George as well), and later enjoyed regular business with the wives of the government elite as her base clientele.

After several years in St. Louis, she moved to Washington, D.C. in the spring of 1860, where she had the country's most elite women of the time requesting her services. Through shrew ...more

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	Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House 3.87 avg rating — 4,167 ratings — published 1868 — 338 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slave Narrative Six Pack 2 - Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, The Souls of Black Folk, Behind the Scenes, Life of Josiah Henson, Narrative of Sojourner ... by William Craft, Ellen Craft, W.E.B. Du Bois 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A View of Lincoln by Elizabeth Keckley, Abraham Lincoln 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women and Freedom: Three Female Slave Narratives by Elizabeth Keckley, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Sojourner Truth it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Shadows Uplifted Volume II: Black Women Authors of 19th Century American Personal Narratives & Autobiographies 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House: True Story of a Black Woman Who Worked for Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Davis 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best Works on Feminism and Slavery: Behind the Scenes, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl & The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Elizabeth Keckley, Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“None of us are perfect, for which reason we should heed the voice of charity when it whispers in our ears, "Do not magnify the imperfections of others.”
― Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

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“An act may be wrong, but unless the ruling power recognizes the wrong, it is useless to hope for a correction of it.”
― Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, And Four Years in the White House

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“I was regarded as fair-looking for one of my race, and for four years a white man—I spare the world his name—had base designs upon me. I do not care to dwell upon this subject, for it is one that is fraught with pain. Suffice it to say, that he persecuted me for four years, and I—I—became a mother. The child of which he was the father was the”
― Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

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