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Elizabeth Keckley's "Behind the Scenes at the Lincoln White House
03-05-2015, 11:41 PM
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RE: Elizabeth Keckley's "Behind the Scenes at the Lincoln White House
If you're ever in Hillsborough, NC, you can see the Burwell School, where Keckley was enslaved (her master and mistress ran a girls' school):

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This is the marker of Alexander Kirkland, who fathered Keckley's child, in the family graveyard at Ayr Mount in Hillsborough. I doubt Keckly would agree with the laudatory epitaph:

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RE: Elizabeth Keckley's "Behind the Scenes at the Lincoln White House - Susan Higginbotham - 03-05-2015 11:41 PM

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