{"product_id":"behind-the-scenes-or-thirty-years-a-slave-and-four-years-in-the-white-house-9780195060843","title":"Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House","description":"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\u003cbr\u003ehis 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\u003cbr\u003eof historical figures and events of the antebellum South, the Washington of the Civil War years, and the final stages of the war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Keckley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/14\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.38h x 4.61w x 1.07d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195060843\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40078471135347,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":26.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_4d3a8b66-b9f2-4b09-bf69-fc5bc16fadd5.jpg?v=1652191101","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/behind-the-scenes-or-thirty-years-a-slave-and-four-years-in-the-white-house-9780195060843","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}