LIZZY
THE ELIZABETH KECKLEY STORY
FROM SLAVERY TO BEING AMERICA'S 1ST COUTURIER
MOTHER OF AMERICAN COUTURE
1818-1907
Reader's Review:
"A remarkable true story about a former slave and single mother who defied all the odds during one of the most harrowing times in U.S. history where she became a highly-skilled and sought-after Dressmaker of Couture for high society and ultimately the official dressmaker to the First Lady of the United States, Mary Todd Lincoln; while being a single mother, Abolitionist, Human Rights Advocate, Philanthropist, Entrepreneur, Author, Professor and more.
LIZZY is a page-turning, heart pounding book that will leave you incredibly inspired. The author takes readers to the hidden and untold stories in U.S. history that many of us have yet to know and learn about; propelling one to realize how incredible the human spirit is and what an astounding WOMAN Elizabeth Keckley was!"
-Ryan Jordan, Artist, Designer, Conscious Creator
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It is difficult to forget the moment the whip hit my back and the realization that my black dress had begun to tear, exposing my skin to meet the sting that numbed me. This went on for what seemed like an eternity as I cried out loud for my mother to save me, but she never came. I was alone in that room, faced down as I saw the floor, the walls and everything around me smattered with blotches of red fragments of what I have come to realize was my own bloodied skin.
At age 4, Elizabeth experiences her first whipping after accidentally falling asleep while watching her Mistress' newborn baby.
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Mother and Father were sharing stories of a light-hearted nature when a knock on the door stopped all of us from our reverie. Like a dark cloud of evil hovering over our cabin, stood Master Burwell at the threshold delivering to us news that hit us like a bolt of lightning. Not even the sting of a lashing is more blood curdling than my father's loud deafening shriek drowned by the agonizing pain of my mother's cries.
Elizabeth's father was separated from his family and sent West, never to be seen again.
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And now here I was, the only Negro woman aboard this steamboat whose human cargo comprised of the wife of the greatest leader of our time and perhaps this nation's history, along with the men and women who were ready to come to blows with anything or anyone who stood against Freedom's way.
April 1865. Elizabeth is aboard the Queen River boat with Mrs. Lincoln to visit conquered soil in the aftermath of the Fall of Richmond in Virginia.
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