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Elizabeth Keckley - Slavery to Dress Designer
Documentaries • 8m 3s
This insightful look at Elizabeth Keckley, born into slavery, freed woman, dressmaker to Varina Howell Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis and Mary Todd Lincoln, brings to light a little known part of the Lincoln story and American history
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