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1) Mary Lincoln's dressmaker: Elizabeth Keckley's remarkable rise from slave to White House confidante
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
Describes the friendship forged by Mary Todd Lincoln and her dressmaker, Lizzie Keckley, despite public disapproval.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly was born in 1818, enslaved to a Virginian plantation owner. As a teenager, Lizzy was sent to work as the only slave on a small plantation, where the work was endless, and the masters treated her with unspeakable cruelty. A new master, learning Lizzy could sew, sent her to work for a tailor, who paid the master, not Lizzy, for Lizzy's work. The beautiful gowns that Lizzy created were displayed in the tailor's window and soon...
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