Behind the scenes; thirty years a slave and four years in the White House. / Elizabeth Keckley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keckley, Elizabeth, approximately 1818-1907.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

American Negro, his history and literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Keckley, Elizabeth, approximately 1818-1907.

Keckley, Elizabeth.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882.

Lincoln, Mary Todd.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

371 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : portrait ; 18 cm.

Distribution:

New York, The New York Times.

Place of Publication:

New York, Arno Press, 1968.

Contents:

Preface

Where I was born

Girlhood and its Sorrows

How I gained my Freedom

In the Family of Senator Jefferson Davis

My Introduction to Mrs. Lincoln

Willie Lincoln's Death-bed

Washington in 1862-3

Candid Opinions

Behind the Scenes

The Second Inauguration

The Assassination of President Lincoln

Mrs. Lincoln leaves the White House

The Origin of the Rivalry between Mr. Douglas and Mr. Lincoln

Old Friends

The Secret History of Mrs. Lincolns Wardrobe in New York.

Notes:

Reprint of the 1868 edition published by G. W. Carleton in the collection of Princeton University.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

OCLC:

449169