![]() ![]() Varina Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis, and Mrs. Through shrewd networking and hard work, she ended up making gowns and dresses for more notable wives such as Mrs. in the spring of 1860, where she had the country's most elite women of the time requesting her services. Keckley utilized her intelligence, keen business acumen, and sewing and design skills to arrange and ultimately buy her freedom (and that of her son George as well), and later enjoyed regular business with the wives of the government elite as her base clientele.Īfter several years in St. ![]() ![]() Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (February 1818 –May 1907) was a former slave turned successful seamstress who is most notably known as being Mary Todd Lincoln's personal modiste and confidante, and the author of her autobiography, Behind the Scenes Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House. ![]()
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