Mary Lincoln's Dressmaker: Elizabeth Keckley's Remarkable Rise from Slave to White House Confidante

Mary Lincoln's Dressmaker

Elizabeth Keckley's Remarkable Rise from Slave to White House Confidante

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Becky Rutberg
Becky Rutberg
1995 • 166 pages

Recounts the life of a woman who spent thirty years in slavery and later worked in the White House

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