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<br /> BY ELIZABETH HOBBS KECKLEY
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<br /> FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1868 Hillsborough, NC—"I have often been asked to write my life . . . it
<br /> has been an eventful one," wrote Elizabeth Keckley in her
<br /> r autobiography Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Tears a Slave, and Four
<br /> Tears in the White House. First published in 1868, it is one of the
<br /> „�1 most candid and poignant slave narratives. It also looks beyond
<br /> In her critically' % Emancipation and is, in the words of historian William L. Andrews,
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<br /> "the first major text to represent the interests and aims of this
<br /> Wench and nascent African American leadership class in the postwar era."
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<br /> Born into slavery, Keckley endured untold hardships but she
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<br /> enterprising, Keckley used her dressmaking skills to set up a
<br /> before and after the Civil War. successful business in Civil War-era Washington, DC, where she
<br /> She has been annalist for two became the modiste of choice for many of the city's most fashionable
<br /> NAACP Image Awards as well women. Her talents and warmth led her to become seamstress to
<br /> as the Hurston-Wright Legacy Mary Todd Lincoln and confidante to both Mary and Abraham
<br /> Award for fiction. Wench Lincoln.
<br /> received the First Novelist
<br /> Award from the Black Caucus of After President Lincoln's assassination, Keckley became caretaker to
<br /> the American Library the former First Lady, whose financial troubles mounted and mental
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<br /> health declined. In an effort to buoy their financial fortunes and
<br /> restore Mary Lincoln's battered public image, Keckley wrote Behind
<br /> the Scenes. Much to her surprise, it was labeled as "treacherous" and
<br /> $10.00,18q.pages ended her relationship with Mary Lincoln. Elizabeth Keckley is now
<br /> Also available as an e-book remembered as an entrepreneur, fashion designer, community
<br /> ISBN978-o-9896o92-7-2 activist, educator, writer, as well as friend to Mary Todd Lincoln.
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<br /> Media contact: Laura Lacy, lauralacy@enopubLishers.org
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