The middle of the book details her exclusive access to the Lincoln family. The two developed a close relationship - a friendship from Keckley's account. After the Lincolns came to the White House, she became Mary Lincoln's modiste and confidant. and began a seamstress business, sewing dresses for the most well-known women of the day, such as Varina Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis who was soon to be President of the Confederacy. Louis with this family, she was able to earn $1500 with her seamstress skills to purchase her freedom and that of her son's. She eventually was able to purchase her freedom through her skill as a seamstress, learned through being forced to keep her owner's family of 17 clothed. The first part of her memoir details her life a slave - the splitting up of her family, the abuse she faced, included rape that led to a pregnancy, and how she strove to keep her dignity. Keckley was born a slave in Virginia in 1818.
My previous book led me to pick up Behind the Scenes, a memoir written by Elizabeth Keckley in 1868 about her life of enslavement, how she bought her freedom, and how she made a life for herself subsequently.
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