“I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.”
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Elizabeth Keckley
Elizabeth Keckley was an American author, known for her memoir 'Behind the Scenes or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House'. Limited information is available about her life and works, but she held a significant place in literary history. more
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