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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) (Updated Edition) by Elizabeth H. Keckley, James Olney (Introduction) Paperback, 404 Pages, Published 1989 ISBN-10: 0-19-506084-9 / 0195060849 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-506084-3 / 9780195060843 Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction, Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a slave and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. As public drama privately experienced, Keckley's work presents Jefferson Davis and his wif |