Description
Title: Behind the Scenes
Author: Keckley, Elizabeth
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Lakeside Press, Chicago
Publication Date: 1998
Edition: First Edition Thus
Book Condition: F-
Comments: Tight copy. Very light wear to boards. No d-j.
Synopsis: Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley’s years as a slave and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln’s White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, we see a wide range of historical figures and events of the antebellum South, the Washington of the Civil War years, and the final stages of the war.
