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If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in one of the following ways: Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. She left Washington in 1892 to teach domestic skills at Wilberforce University, but ill health forced her to return and spend her final years in the Home for Destitute Women and Children, which she had helped to establish. Lincoln and White House private life, she did not foresee the over-whelming public disapproval that led to the end of her dressmaking career as well as condemnation from the Lincoln family. Though Ke-ckley anticipated some disapproval for publishing personal details about Mrs. Lincoln financially and partly to counter criticism of Mrs. Keckley published Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House in 1868, partly to help Mrs. After President Lincoln's assassination, Keckley made several attempts to raise money for the former first lady, including an 1867 clothing auction that scandalized the public. Keckley's cli-ents were the wives of influential politicians, and she eventually became the dresser and close confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. In 1860, she left her husband and moved to Washington, D.C., where she set up a dressmaking shop. Sympathetic customers loaned Keckley the money to purchase her free-dom and that of her son in 1855. Prior to her marriage, Keckley had negotiated with the Garlands to purchase her freedom and that of her son, but she could not raise the required $1, 200, because of the strain of supporting her “dissipated” husband and the Garland household (p.
She married James Keckley around 1852, discovering only afterward that he was not a freeman. There she became a dressmaker and supported Garland's entire household for over two years.
She was eventually given to Burwell's daughter, Ann Garland-with whom she moved to St. Keckley experienced harsh treatment under slavery, in-cluding beatings as well as the sexual assault of a white man, Alexander Kirkland, by whom she had a son named George. 1818-1907) was born enslaved in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, to Agnes Hobbs and George Pleasant, a man owned by a different master.
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