Behind the Scenes
Behind the Scenes
or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Contenu
Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a salve and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, 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.
Informations bibliographiques
février 1990, The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers, Anglais
Oxford Academic
978-0-19-506084-3