{"product_id":"behind-the-scenes-or-thirty-years-a-slave-and-four-years-in-the-white-house","title":"Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBehind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House\u003c\/h1\u003eElizabeth Keckley\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eDecember 14 1989\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780195060843\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0195060849\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction, \u003cem\u003eBehind the Scenes\u003c\/em\u003e 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 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 range of historical figures and events of the antebellum South, the Washington of the Civil War years, and the final stages of the war.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44556654641197,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_9f705ff7-ccc6-46f9-b194-b86c1729f7d9.jpg?v=1769310980","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/behind-the-scenes-or-thirty-years-a-slave-and-four-years-in-the-white-house","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}