Behind the Scenes

von Elizabeth Keckley

208 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Behind the scenes formerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and friend to Mrs. Lincoln, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House is an autobiography of a former slave who obtained her freedom in 1855 at age thirty. The book discusses the reconstruction era. The author describes how being a skillful seamstress led her to become the confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln during the Lincolns' years in the White House.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Biografien und Sachliteratur Allgemein
• ISBN: 9781438523088
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.08.2009
• Größe: 235 x 191 mm
• Verlag: Book Jungle