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Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House [[electronic resource] /] / by Elizabeth Keckly
| Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House [[electronic resource] /] / by Elizabeth Keckly |
| Autore | Keckley Elizabeth <ca. 1818-1907.> |
| Edizione | [DocSouth Books ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, : distributed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (165 p.) |
| Disciplina | 973.7092 |
| Soggetto topico |
African American women
Enslaved women - United States Dressmakers - United States Enslaved persons - United States |
| ISBN |
979-88-908432-9-6
979-88-908433-0-2 1-4696-0290-3 0-8078-6964-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""About This Edition""; ""Summary""; ""CONTENTS.""; ""PREFACE.""; ""BEHIND THE SCENES.""; ""WHERE I WAS BORN.""; ""GIRLHOOD AND ITS SORROWS.""; ""HOW I GAINED MY FREEDOM.""; ""In the Family of Senator Jefferson Davis.""; ""MY INTRODUCTION TO MRS. LINCOLN.""; ""WILLIE LINCOLN'S DEATH-BED.""; ""WASHINGTON IN 1862-3.""; ""CANDID OPINIONS.""; ""BEHIND THE SCENES.""; ""THE SECOND INAUGURATION.""; ""THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.""; ""MRS. LINCOLN LEAVES THE WHITE HOUSE.""; ""THE ORIGIN OF THE RIVALRY BETWEEN MR. DOUGLAS AND MR. LINCOLN.""; ""OLD FRIENDS.""
""THE SECRET HISTORY OF MRS. LINCOLN'S WARDROBE IN NEW YORK.""""APPENDIX.""; ""LETTERS FROM MRS. LINCOLN TO MRS. KECKLEY."" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781451603321 |
Keckley Elizabeth <ca. 1818-1907.>
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| Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, : distributed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Press, 2011 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House / / by Elizabeth Keckly
| Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House / / by Elizabeth Keckly |
| Autore | Keckley Elizabeth <ca. 1818-1907.> |
| Edizione | [DocSouth Books ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, : distributed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (165 p.) |
| Disciplina | 973.7092 |
| Soggetto topico |
African American women
Enslaved women - United States Dressmakers - United States Enslaved persons - United States |
| ISBN |
9798890843296
9798890843302 9781469602905 1469602903 9780807869642 0807869643 |
| Classificazione | HIS000000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""About This Edition""; ""Summary""; ""CONTENTS.""; ""PREFACE.""; ""BEHIND THE SCENES.""; ""WHERE I WAS BORN.""; ""GIRLHOOD AND ITS SORROWS.""; ""HOW I GAINED MY FREEDOM.""; ""In the Family of Senator Jefferson Davis.""; ""MY INTRODUCTION TO MRS. LINCOLN.""; ""WILLIE LINCOLN'S DEATH-BED.""; ""WASHINGTON IN 1862-3.""; ""CANDID OPINIONS.""; ""BEHIND THE SCENES.""; ""THE SECOND INAUGURATION.""; ""THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.""; ""MRS. LINCOLN LEAVES THE WHITE HOUSE.""; ""THE ORIGIN OF THE RIVALRY BETWEEN MR. DOUGLAS AND MR. LINCOLN.""; ""OLD FRIENDS.""
""THE SECRET HISTORY OF MRS. LINCOLN'S WARDROBE IN NEW YORK.""""APPENDIX.""; ""LETTERS FROM MRS. LINCOLN TO MRS. KECKLEY."" |
| Altri titoli varianti |
Behind the scenes
Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910970845403321 |
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Keckley Elizabeth <ca. 1818-1907.>
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| Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, : distributed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Press, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mrs. Dred Scott [[electronic resource] ] : a life on slavery's frontier / / Lea VanderVelde
| Mrs. Dred Scott [[electronic resource] ] : a life on slavery's frontier / / Lea VanderVelde |
| Autore | VanderVelde Lea |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (497 p.) |
| Disciplina | 973.7115092 |
| Soggetto topico |
Enslaved women - United States
Enslaved persons - United States |
| ISBN |
0-19-771476-5
0-19-988785-3 1-281-98709-3 9786611987091 0-19-971064-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Wife of a celebrity -- 1835 : arriving on the frontier -- Settling in -- Entertaining guests at the Indian Agency -- Late summer harvest -- Wintering over at St. Peter's Agency -- Winters deep -- 1836 : spring and the change of the guard -- Celestial explorers -- Call of the wood as a prelude to treaty -- 1837 : treaty made before her eyes -- Marriage : together alone -- Traveling the length of the river -- New baby in a new land -- Deteriorating community -- Battles and baptisms -- Taliaferro's last stand -- Leaving Minnesota and its new tribunals -- While the doctor was away : St. Louis, 1840-43 -- House of Chouteau -- Black social life of St. Louis -- Doctor returns -- 1843 Interlude : Jefferson barracks between wars of national expansion -- Dred with the army of observation and Harriet with the children in St. Louis -- Courthouse and the jail -- Other matters at the courthouse -- Filing suit again -- 1849 : trial by pestilence, trial by fire -- Declared free -- Missouri changes its course -- Before the high court -- Aftermath and epilogue. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782898403321 |
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VanderVelde Lea
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mrs. Dred Scott : a life on slavery's frontier / / Lea VanderVelde
| Mrs. Dred Scott : a life on slavery's frontier / / Lea VanderVelde |
| Autore | VanderVelde Lea |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (497 p.) |
| Disciplina | 973.7115092 |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Enslaved women - United States
Enslaved persons - United States |
| ISBN |
9786611987091
9780197714768 0197714765 9780199887859 0199887853 9781281987099 1281987093 9780199710645 0199710643 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Wife of a celebrity -- 1835 : arriving on the frontier -- Settling in -- Entertaining guests at the Indian Agency -- Late summer harvest -- Wintering over at St. Peter's Agency -- Winters deep -- 1836 : spring and the change of the guard -- Celestial explorers -- Call of the wood as a prelude to treaty -- 1837 : treaty made before her eyes -- Marriage : together alone -- Traveling the length of the river -- New baby in a new land -- Deteriorating community -- Battles and baptisms -- Taliaferro's last stand -- Leaving Minnesota and its new tribunals -- While the doctor was away : St. Louis, 1840-43 -- House of Chouteau -- Black social life of St. Louis -- Doctor returns -- 1843 Interlude : Jefferson barracks between wars of national expansion -- Dred with the army of observation and Harriet with the children in St. Louis -- Courthouse and the jail -- Other matters at the courthouse -- Filing suit again -- 1849 : trial by pestilence, trial by fire -- Declared free -- Missouri changes its course -- Before the high court -- Aftermath and epilogue. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Mistress Dred Scott |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910974999603321 |
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VanderVelde Lea
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The showman and the slave [[electronic resource] ] : race, death, and memory in Barnum's America / / Benjamin Reiss
| The showman and the slave [[electronic resource] ] : race, death, and memory in Barnum's America / / Benjamin Reiss |
| Autore | Reiss Benjamin |
| Edizione | [1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306/.0973/09034 |
| Soggetto topico |
Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century
Enslaved women - United States Freak shows - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century White people - Race identity - United States African Americans in popular culture - History - 19th century Racism in popular culture - United States - History - 19th century Death in popular culture - United States - History - 19th century |
| ISBN | 0-674-04265-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- AckrunvZedgments -- Introduction: The Dark Subject -- 1. DEATH AND DYING -- 1. Possession -- 2. The Celebrated Curiosity -- 3. Private Acts, Public Memories -- 4. Sacred and Profane -- 5. Culture Wars -- 6. Love, Automata, and India Rubber -- 7. Spectacle -- II. RESURRECTION -- 8. Authenticity and Commodity -- 9. Exposure and Mastery -- 10. Erasure -- III. LIFE -- 11. A Speculative Biography -- Note to the 2010 Printing -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781142303321 |
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Reiss Benjamin
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| Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The showman and the slave : race, death, and memory in Barnum's America / / Benjamin Reiss
| The showman and the slave : race, death, and memory in Barnum's America / / Benjamin Reiss |
| Autore | Reiss Benjamin |
| Edizione | [1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306/.0973/09034 |
| Soggetto topico |
Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century
Enslaved women - United States Freak shows - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century White people - Race identity - United States African Americans in popular culture - History - 19th century Racism in popular culture - United States - History - 19th century Death in popular culture - United States - History - 19th century |
| ISBN |
9780674042650
0674042654 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- AckrunvZedgments -- Introduction: The Dark Subject -- 1. DEATH AND DYING -- 1. Possession -- 2. The Celebrated Curiosity -- 3. Private Acts, Public Memories -- 4. Sacred and Profane -- 5. Culture Wars -- 6. Love, Automata, and India Rubber -- 7. Spectacle -- II. RESURRECTION -- 8. Authenticity and Commodity -- 9. Exposure and Mastery -- 10. Erasure -- III. LIFE -- 11. A Speculative Biography -- Note to the 2010 Printing -- Notes -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910959997603321 |
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Reiss Benjamin
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| Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Speaking lives, authoring texts [[electronic resource] ] : three African American women's oral slave narratives / / edited by DoVeanna S. Fulton Minor and Reginald H. Pitts
| Speaking lives, authoring texts [[electronic resource] ] : three African American women's oral slave narratives / / edited by DoVeanna S. Fulton Minor and Reginald H. Pitts |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.3/62092 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
Fulton MinorDoVeanna S
JacksonMattie J LarisonCornelius Wilson <1837-1910.> PicquetLouisa PittsReginald H |
| Soggetto topico |
Slavery - United States - History - 19th century
Enslaved women - United States |
| ISBN |
1-4384-2966-5
1-4416-3889-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792448503321 |
| Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Speaking lives, authoring texts : three African American women's oral slave narratives / / edited by DoVeanna S. Fulton Minor and Reginald H. Pitts
| Speaking lives, authoring texts : three African American women's oral slave narratives / / edited by DoVeanna S. Fulton Minor and Reginald H. Pitts |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.3/62092 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
Fulton MinorDoVeanna S
JacksonMattie J LarisonCornelius Wilson <1837-1910.> PicquetLouisa PittsReginald H |
| Soggetto topico |
Slavery - United States - History - 19th century
Enslaved women - United States |
| ISBN |
9781438429663
1438429665 9781441638892 144163889X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts -- Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Speaking Lives, Authoring Texts: African American Women's Voices Raised for Freedom -- Chronology of Louisa Picquet -- Louisa Picquet, The Octoroon: A Tale of Southern Slave Life. -- Chronology of Mattie J. Jackson -- The Story of Mattie J. Jackson -- Her Parentage-Experience of Eighteen Years in Slavery-Incidents During the War-Her Escape from Slavery. -- Chronology of Sylvia Dubois 1768(?) - 1888 -- Sylvia Dubois (Now 116 Years Old), A Biography of the Slave Who Whipped Her Mistress and Gained Her Freedom -- Silvia Dubois (Now 116 Yers Old), A Biografy of The Slav Who Whipt Her Mistress and Gand Her Fredom (1883) (Facsimile). |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910953157503321 |
| Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The trials of Phillis Wheatley / / Henry Louis Gates, Jr
| The trials of Phillis Wheatley / / Henry Louis Gates, Jr |
| Autore | Gates Henry Louis, Jr. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : BasicCivitas Books, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina |
811/.1
B |
| Soggetto topico |
African American poets
Poets, American - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Enslaved women - United States |
| ISBN | 0-465-02729-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996248095603316 |
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Gates Henry Louis, Jr.
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| New York, : BasicCivitas Books, c2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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