In the canon
Behind the Scenes
Elizabeth Keckley
- Form
- Form Memoir
- Year
- Year 1868
- Pages
- Pages 250
She sewed her way out. Elizabeth Keckley was flogged as a girl in Virginia, bore a son to a white man who would not be refused, and bought herself and that boy free for twelve hundred dollars, loaned by the St.
I was born a slave—was the child of slave parents—therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.
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