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.