Behind the Scenes
by Elizabeth Keckley
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About this eBook
- Author
- Keckley, Elizabeth, 1818-1907
- Title
- Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House
- Credits
- Produced by Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- E456: History: America: Civil War period (1861-1865)
- Subject
- African American women -- Biography
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 24968
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24968
- Release Date
- March 31, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.BEHIND THE SCENES. — BY
- 2.ELIZABETH KECKLEY,
- 3.THIRTY YEARS A SLAVE, AND FOUR YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
- 4.Contents
- 5.PREFACE — CHAPTER I
- 6.WHERE I WAS BORN — CHAPTER II
- 7.GIRLHOOD AND ITS SORROWS — CHAPTER III
- 8.HOW I GAINED MY FREEDOM — CHAPTER IV
- 9.IN THE FAMILY OF SENATOR JEFFERSON DAVIS — CHAPTER V
- 10.MY INTRODUCTION TO MRS. LINCOLN — CHAPTER VI
- 11.WILLIE LINCOLN'S DEATH-BED — CHAPTER VII
- 12.WASHINGTON IN 1862-3 — CHAPTER VIII
- 13.CANDID OPINIONS — CHAPTER IX
- 14.BEHIND THE SCENES — CHAPTER X
- 15.THE SECOND INAUGURATION — CHAPTER XI
- 16.THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN — CHAPTER XII
- 17.MRS. LINCOLN LEAVES THE WHITE HOUSE — CHAPTER XIII
- 18.THE ORIGIN OF THE RIVALRY BETWEEN MR. DOUGLAS AND MR. LINCOLN — CHAPTER XIV
- 19.OLD FRIENDS — CHAPTER XV
- 20.THE SECRET HISTORY OF MRS. LINCOLN'S WARDROBE IN NEW YORK — APPENDIX
- 21.LETTERS FROM MRS. LINCOLN TO MRS. KECKLEY.
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