Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House: True Story of a Black Women Who Worked for Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Davis

In "Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House," Elizabeth Keckley offers a poignant and personal account of her experiences as a former slave who rose to become the dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. Keckley employs a candid narrative style that intertwines her harrowing life story with sharp socio-political observations of 19th-century America, particularly concerning slavery and the complexities of race in the midst of the Civil War. The book s...