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Behind the Scenes
Elizabeth Keckley
其他書名
Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
出版Oxford University Press, 1988
主題Biography & Autobiography / Cultural HeritageBiography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / HistoricalHistory / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)History / African American & BlackSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / African American StudiesSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSocial Science / Women's StudiesSocial Science / Black Studies (Global)
ISBN01950608499780195060843
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=F3C4IazojP8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 (1861-1865). As public drama privately experienced, Keckley's work presents Jefferson Davis and his wife, Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, and even Stephen Douglas and "Mrs. Senator Douglas" in the foreground, with the war, and slavery as the issue that precipitated it, in the background. Through the eyes of this black woman--an ex-slave, seamstress, and dressmaker--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.