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by Elizabeth Keckley

Kaethe rated it

11 years ago

text Behind the Scenes : Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Sadly, the author spends far too little time on her years in slavery and far too much time on the efforts she made on Mrs. Lincoln's behalf after the assassination. To give you an idea: one sentence on the death of Keckley's only child in a chapter dedicated to the death of the Lincoln's child. No d...

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