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

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.Keckley, Elizabeth H. is the author of 'Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House' with ISBN 9780405018244 and ISBN 040501824X.