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Name: Behind the Scenes

Full title: Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
Author: Elizabeth Keckley
Year: 1868
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Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Memoirs, Historical fiction

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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. 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.
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