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　　A vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the

Antebellum south and the Civil War that recreates the lives and

friendship of two exceptional women: First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln

and her mulatto dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckly.

“I consider you my best living friend,” Mary Lincoln wrote to

Elizabeth Keckly in 1867, and indeed theirs was a close, if

tumultuous, relationship. Born into slavery, mulatto Elizabeth

Keckly was Mary Lincoln’s dressmaker, confidante, and mainstay

during the difficult years that the Lincolns occupied the White

House and the early years of Mary’s widowhood. But she was a

fascinating woman in her own right, independent and already

well-established as the dressmaker to the Washington elite when she

was first hired by Mary Lincoln upon her arrival in the nation’s

capital. Lizzy had bought her freedom in 1855 and come to

Washington determined to make a life for herself as a free black,

and she soon had Washington correspondents reporting that “stately

carriages stand before her door, whose haughty owners sit before

Lizzy docile as lambs while she tells them what to wear.” Mary

Lincoln had hired Lizzy in part because she was considered a “high

society” seamstress and Mary, an outsider in Washington’s social

circles, was desperate for social cachet. With her husband

struggling to keep the nation together, Mary turned increasingly to

her seamstress for companionship, support, and advice—and over the

course of those trying years, Lizzy Keckly became her confidante

and closest friend.

With Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly, pioneering historian Jennifer

Fleischner allows us to glimpse the intimate dynamics of this

unusual friendship for the first time, and traces the pivotal

events that enabled these two women—one born to be a mistress, the

other to be a slave—to forge such an unlikely bond at a time when

relations between blacks and whites were tearing the nation apart.

Beginning with their respective childhoods in the slaveholding

states of Virginia and Kentucky, their story takes us through the

years of tragic Civil War, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln,

and the early Reconstruction period. An author in her own right,

Keckly wrote one of the most detailed biographies of Mary Lincoln

ever published, and though it led to a bitter feud between the

friends, it is one of the many rich resources that have enhanced

Fleischner’s trove of original findings.

A remarkable, riveting work of scholarship that reveals the

legacy of slavery and sheds new light on the Lincoln White House,

Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly brings to life a mesmerizing, intimate

aspect of Civil War history, and underscores the inseparability of

black and white in our nation’s heritage.

From the Hardcover edition.

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　　Jennifer Fleischner was awarded a one-year

Mellon Faculty Fellowship in Afro-American Studies at Harvard,

where she researched and taught alongside such colleagues as Henry

Louis Gates, Jr. Also the author of Mastering Slavery, she

is now Chair of the English Department at Adelphi University.

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A vibrant social history set against the backdrop of the Antebellum south and the Civil War that recreates the lives and friendship of two exceptional women: First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her mulatto dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckly.

“I consider you my best living friend,” Mary Lincoln wrote to Elizabeth Keckly in 1867, and indeed theirs was a close, if tumultuous, relationship. Born into slavery, mulatto Elizabeth Keckly was Mary Lincoln’s dressmaker, confidante, and mainstay during the difficult years that the Lincolns occupied the White House and the early years of Mary’s widowhood. But she was a fascinating woman in her own right, independent and already well-established as the dressmaker to the Washington elite when she was first hired by Mary Lincoln upon her arrival in the nation’s capital. Lizzy had bought her freedom in 1855 and come to Washington determined to make a life for herself as a free black, and she soon had Washington correspondents reporting that “stately carriages stand before her door, whose haughty owners sit before Lizzy docile as lambs while she tells them what to wear.” Mary Lincoln had hired Lizzy in part because she was considered a “high society” seamstress and Mary, an outsider in Washington’s social circles, was desperate for social cachet. With her husband struggling to keep the nation together, Mary turned increasingly to her seamstress for companionship, support, and advice—and over the course of those trying years, Lizzy Keckly became her confidante and closest friend.

With Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly , pioneering historian Jennifer Fleischner allows us to glimpse the intimate dynamics of this unusual friendship for the first time, and traces the pivotal events that enabled these two women—one born to be a mistress, the other to be a slave—to forge such an unlikely bond at a time when relations between blacks and whites were tearing the nation apart. Beginning with their respective childhoods in the slaveholding states of Virginia and Kentucky, their story takes us through the years of tragic Civil War, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the early Reconstruction period. An author in her own right, Keckly wrote one of the most detailed biographies of Mary Lincoln ever published, and though it led to a bitter feud between the friends, it is one of the many rich resources that have enhanced Fleischner’s trove of original findings.

A remarkable, riveting work of scholarship that reveals the legacy of slavery and sheds new light on the Lincoln White House, Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly brings to life a mesmerizing, intimate aspect of Civil War history, and underscores the inseparability of black and white in our nation’s heritage.

From the Hardcover edition.