Shining Stars: African American Women Authors of the Civil War Era

Elizabeth Keckley

Item

Name

Elizabeth Keckley

Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley

Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly

Surname

Keckley

Keckly

Death Year

1907

Bio Sketch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Keckley

Status at Birth

Enslaved

Occupation

Entrepreneur

Seamstress

Professor

Activist

Dress Designer

Residence

Washington, DC

North Carolina

St. Louis, Missouri

Birth Place

Dinwiddie County, Virginia

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Items with "Creator: Elizabeth Keckley"

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Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House	Image

Items with "Subject: Elizabeth Keckley"

Title	Class
Ample Proof of Reality of Elizabeth Keckley	NewsArticle
Belabored professions : narratives of African American working womanhood	Text
Belabored Professions: Narratives of African American Working Womanhood	Text
Bizarre Lincoln Story Is Traced	NewsArticle
Book Notices	NewsArticle
Elizabeth Keckley	Image
Elizabeth Keckley, 1861	Image
Fashioning the Domestic Ideology: Women and the Language of Fashion in the Works of Elizabeth Stoddard, Louisa May Alcott, and Elizabeth Keckley	Text
Freedom Narratives of African American Women: A Study of 19th Century Writings	Text
Madam Elizabeth Keckley: Modiste to Mrs. A. Lincoln	Image
Mary T. Lincoln Book Stirs Row: Did Her Servant or Abolition Journalist Write Book on Pretty Clothes?	NewsArticle
Mrs. Elizabeth Keckley … has commenced legal proceedings against the publisher …	NewsArticle
The Elizabeth Keckley Reader	Text
Writer Explains Error in Case of Mrs. Keckley	NewsArticle

Items with "Author: Elizabeth Keckley"

Title	Class
Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House	Text

Resource class

person