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I was I initially interested in this because I’m a sewist and admire the surviving dress Keckley made for Mary Lincoln. But when I learned that the two women were also close friends I wondered exactly how that came to be.
As a black woman I appreciated Elizabeth’s matter of fact explanation of her enslavement. She skips overly graphic details but tells enough that by reading between the lines the reader is able t