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Behind the Scenes; or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

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  • Olaudah Equiano
    In slave narrative

    In Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (1868), Elizabeth Keckley chronicled her successful rise from enslavement in Virginia and Missouri to employment as the modiste and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. Former slaves who joined the post-Civil…

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