Book detail: Behind the scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White house is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.
This book is a first-hand account of the author's life, covering his time as a slave and his subsequent observations of political life in the White House over a period of thirty years.
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