![]() She eventually purchased freedom for herself and that of her son in the 1850s and is now remembered as an entrepreneur, fashion designer, abolitionist, educator, writer, and community activist. After Keckley gave birth to a son, she and her baby were sent to live with Burwell's sister.īorn into slavery, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley endured untold hardships at the hands of her master and half-brother Robert Burwell in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Burwell, and the unwelcome sexual advances and eventual rape by one of the town's white citizens. She writes about mistreatment and violence visited upon her by Rev. The Burwells had twelve children and ran an academy for girls. He is thought by many historians to have been Keckley's half-brother. ![]() ![]() Author Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley writes about her teenage years, working as a slave for the Rev. Behind the Scenes: or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House was first published in 1868 and is considered one of the most candid and poignant slave narratives. ![]()
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