I told him I was ready to die
Suzanne Scafe, 16 February 1989
Behind the Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
by Elizabeth Keckley.
Oxford, 371 pp., £15.50, July 1988,0 19 505259 5 Show More
by Elizabeth Keckley.
Oxford, 371 pp., £15.50, July 1988,
The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke
by Brenda Stevenson.
Oxford, 609 pp., £22.50, July 1988,0 19 505238 2 Show More
by Brenda Stevenson.
Oxford, 609 pp., £22.50, July 1988,
The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Secole in Many Lands
by Mary Secole.
Oxford, 371 pp., £15.50, July 1988,0 19 505249 8 Show More
by Mary Secole.
Oxford, 371 pp., £15.50, July 1988,
“... thereafter never again. The sons and daughters of her master became her and her mother’s family. Elizabeth grew to cherish the bond between them and returned to see them after she had gained her freedom and become a successful dressmaker at the White House. Characteristically, she describes these strange loyalties as both reciprocal and ... ”
