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Keckley (1818) was born enslaved in Virginia. She purchased freedom for herself and her son for $1200 in 1855. In 1861 she became the dressmaker and confidant of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. In 1868, she published her memoir, Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House.
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📚 "A Black Woman's View of Hart Todd Lincoln: Friend and Seamstress of President's Wife Wrote 'Scandalous' Book." Ebony, February 1970.
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