Research Catalog

Title

Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House / by Elizabeth Keckley, formerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and friend to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln.

Author

Keckley, Elizabeth, approximately 1818-1907.

Publication

• New York : G.W. Carleton & Co., publishers, MDCCCLXVIII. [1868]
• ©1868

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Details

Additional Authors

• G.W. Carleton & Co., publisher.
• New York Printing Company, printer.

Description

[7], x-xvi, [1], 18-371, [1] pages : portrait; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

• Behind the scenes
• Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House

Subjects

• Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
• Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 > Employees > Biography
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Employees > Biography
• Black author
• Keckley, Elizabeth, approximately 1818-1907

Note

• With a half-title.
• "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by Elizabeth Keckley, In the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Pennsylvania."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
• "The New York Printing Company, 81, 83, and 85 Centre Street, New York."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• Last page blank.

Additional Formats (note)

• Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Source (note)

• from Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Preface -- ch. 1. Where I was born -- ch. 2. Girlhood and its sorrows -- ch. 3. How I gained my freedom -- ch. 4. In the family of Senator Jefferson Davis -- ch. 5. My introduction to Mrs. Lincoln -- ch. 6. Willie Lincoln's death-bed -- ch. 7. Washington in 1862-3 -- ch. 8. Candid opinions -- ch. 9. Behind the scenes -- ch. 10. The second inauguration -- ch. 11. The assassination of President Lincoln -- ch. 12. Mrs. Lincoln leaves the White House -- ch. 13. The origin of the rivalry between Mr. Douglas and Mr. Lincoln -- ch. 14. Old friends -- ch. 15. The secret history of Mrs. Lincoln's wardrobe in New York -- Appendix: Letters from Mrs. Lincoln to Mrs. Keckley.

Call Number

Sc Rare B-Lincoln (Keckley, E. Behind the scenes)

LCCN

05004115

OCLC

• 444409
• NYPGR444409-B

Author

Keckley, Elizabeth, approximately 1818-1907.

Title

Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave and four years in the White House / by Elizabeth Keckley, formerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and friend to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln.

Publisher

New York : G.W. Carleton & Co., publishers, MDCCCLXVIII. [1868]

Copyright Date

©1868

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Available as part of The Digital Schomburg, a project providing electronic access to collections on the African Diaspora and Africa from The New York Public Library.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare B-Lincoln (copy 2) (accession no. B389103) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare B-Lincoln (copy 2) accompanied by 8 page publisher's catalog bound-in at end: "A catalogue of books issued by G.W. Carleton & Co., publishers, New York. 1868."

Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-2236 or the electronic resource.

Source

Purchase; from Arthur A. Schomburg; 1926. Sc Rare B-Lincoln (Keckley, E. Behind the scenes) c. 2, Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

G.W. Carleton & Co., publisher.

New York Printing Company, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare B-Lincoln (Keckley, E. Behind the scenes)

AN (Keckley) (Keckley, E. H. Behind the scenes)

*WIY 97-13