On Keckley's response to her slaveholder's abuse
Host Frank Stasio discusses the collection with Sheila Smith McKoy, professor and chair of the department of English at Kennesaw State University. The new collection of scholarship “The Elizabeth Keckley Reader, Volume One: Writing Self, Writing Nation” (Eno Publishers/2016) illuminates Keckley’s life and writings. She sewed for the wives of senators and eventually became the personal dress maker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln, making her the first paid African-American employee in the White House.
Louis, where she purchased her own freedom. Keckley later moved to the District of Columbia where she rose to prominence in her career as a seamstress. She spent about six years enslaved in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and eventually traveled to St. Keckley was born into slavery in Virginia in 1818. In 1868, Elizabeth Keckley published the memoir “Behind the Scenes: Or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House.” She wrote in the preface, “I have often been asked to write my life, as those who know me know that it has been an eventful one.”
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