SLAVE NARRATIVE

Keckley, Elizabeth. Behind the Scenes, or; Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. Engraved frontispiece. 8vo, cloth, spine ends lightly rubbed. With the publisher's ads. New York, 1868 FIRST EDITION of this important autobiography by Mary Todd Lincoln's personal companion and seamstress. Keckley, aside from relating her experiences in the White House, related the story of her enslavement and subsequent freedom. LCP, Negro History 192; Brignano 145; Sabin 37141; Work, page 312.