FREE Kindle eBook - Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
NOTE: If by the time you read this Amazon no longer has the book available for free, you should be able to find it elsewhere for free. From an earlier Post: Three of my favorite sources are Project Gutenberg, Open Culture, and Internet Archive.
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From the Free Booksy email list, a FREE Kindle eBook, “Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House” by Elizabeth Keckley.
The "Free" part should be good for at least all of today, Thursday, September 14, 2023. But whether today or later, double-check and make sure the price is still in fact FREE.
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For those outside the US, go to your country's Amazon site. Search for the eBook from there, and see if it's free. The Link below works for the US Amazon site, but (for example) probably won't let you get the book for free at “Amazon Canada”.
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From the Publisher's description:
The revealing memoir of a woman who bought her freedom from slavery and became a White House dressmaker and confidant to Mary Todd Lincoln.
Born into slavery in Virginia, Elizabeth Keckley was whipped, sexually abused, and separated from her mother for long stretches of time. When her master eventually settled in St. Louis, Missouri, Keckley resolved to buy her freedom. She put to use her talents as a seamstress and found patrons among the wives of the city’s elite, eventually earning enough money to move with her young son to Washington, DC.
In the nation’s capital, Keckley started her own business and soon had commissions from the wives of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Stephen A. Douglas, and Edwin Stanton. Hired by Mary Todd Lincoln to be her personal modiste, Keckley formed a close friendship with the first lady, a relationship strengthened by the tragedies they endured together, including the deaths of their sons and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
Published to great controversy in 1868, Behind the Scenes offers an intimate and revealing portrait of life inside the White House as well as the stirring story of one woman’s fight to rise above the horrors of slavery. Frequently cited in studies of the Civil War and biographies of the Lincolns, it is a must read for students of American history.
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Here's a Link to the Amazon listing, which should get Free Booksy their referral credit.
Free Booksy operates much the same as the Robin Reads email list. I previously covered the free Robin Reads email list, which you can read HERE.