Book : Behind The Scenes Or, Thirty Years A Slave, And Four.

-Titulo Original : Behind The Scenes Or, Thirty Years A Slave, And Four Years In The White House (the Schomburg Library Of Nineteenth-century Black Women Writers)

-Fabricante :

Oxford University Press

-Descripcion Original:

Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction, Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckleys years as a slave and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincolns White House during the Civil War. As public drama privately experienced, Keckleys work presents Jefferson Davis andhis 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 rangeof historical figures and events of the antebellum South, the Washington of the Civil War years, and the final stages of the war. From the Back Cover Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckleys years as a salve and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincolns 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. About the Author James Olney is at Louisiana State University.