Historic Interpreter's Series - Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley

Join us for our monthly series to 'step into the past' with vivid storytelling from dynamic historic character actors. Each month, a new interpreter will bring their compelling journey to life and respond to questions about the era in which they lived.

February 2: Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (February 1818 - May 1907) Elizabeth Keckley was an African American woman who went from former enslavement to the confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. An accomplished seamstress, she was able to buy her freedom for herself and her son from the Virginia family who owned her. In this program, you will engage with Mrs. Keckley as she promotes her new book, “Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House,” in 1868.  Hear her reflect on her extraordinary journey from bondage to independence, and gain a vivid, intimate portrait of a woman who stitched her way into American…