In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth and #NYFW, we honor groundbreaking businesswoman and author Elizabeth Keckley. Born a slave, she bought her freedom and became personal dressmaker for first lady Mary Todd Lincoln. Learn more this extraordinary woman: | The View
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In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth and #NYFW, we honor groundbreaking businesswoman and author Elizabeth Keckley. Born a slave, she bought her freedom and became personal dressmaker for first lady Mary Todd Lincoln. Learn more this extraordinary woman: | The View
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🩷 Your Daily Dose of Women’s History… On November 15, 1855, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley secured freedom for herself and her son in St. Louis after patrons raised the $1,200 price her enslavers demanded. Within a few years she moved to Washington, D.C., built a thriving dressmaking business, became Mary Todd Lincoln’s trusted modiste and confidante, and later organized the Contraband Relief Association to support formerly enslaved families during the Civil War.  Why it mattered: Keckley turned prof
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Elizabeth Keckly, also spelled Keckley, was born an enslaved woman who, with her profits as a seamstress, bought her and her son's freedom. Her memoir "Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House," recounts her rise to prominence. Public historian Cicely Hunter joined Carol Daniel to discuss how Keckly's skill brought her to make dresses for notable clients like First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. Catch their full conversation here: https://youtu.be/GT3XhpWOHYs . | v
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