Elizabeth Keckley was born | | her father was Colonel Burwell. |
According to historical writings | | which is a dressmaker. |
When she was four years old | | and told her about her debts. |
At age seventeen she began sewing | | a slave in Virginia. |
She was such a good seamstress | | had to sell her beautiful dresses. |
The price of freedom for herself and her boy | | she was told she was a "maid" for the baby. |
In Washington D.C. she became a modiste, | | for the rich ladies in St. Louis. |
She made many dresses for | | was $1200. |
Mrs. Lincoln confided in Elizabeth | | was poor and destitute. |
To pay her debts Mrs. Lincoln | | she supported seventeen people in her family. |
When Elizabeth wrote a book, | | Mary Todd Lincoln, the president's wife. |
At the end of her life Elizabeth Keckley | | the Lincoln family became angry. |