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- About Elizabeth Hobbs: Elizabeth is a London based artist working with animation. Her films are experimental in form and often centered upon real life people or events. They always explore and stretch the material possibilities of the medium, and often employ methods from her printmaking background.
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As an African American businesswoman and philanthropist, Keckley defied stereotypes and redefined what an African American woman could accomplish in the Nineteenth Century. Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (also spelled Keckly) was born in February 1818 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
Her story is integral to White House history and understanding the experiences of enslaved and free Black women. Click here to learn more about the household of President Abraham Lincoln. Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly was born in February 1818 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
- Early Years
- Dressmaking and Freedom
- Washington, D.C., and The Lincoln White House
- Final Years
Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly (sometimes spelled Keckley) was born in February 1818 in Dinwiddie Courthouse, in the Piedmont region of Virginia, the only child of Agnes Hobbs, a mixed-race woman who was enslaved in the household of Armistead Burwell. The Burwells also enslaved Hobbs’s extended family, including an aunt, her children, and at least one uncl...
By 1842, Armistead Burwell had died, and Mary Burwell was living on a farm near Petersburg with her daughter Anne Burwell Garland and son-in-law Hugh A. Garland. Keckly and George were sent to the Garland’s farm, where she was reunited with her mother, her aunt, and her cousins. Keckly would remember these years fondly, particularly compared to the...
In the spring of 1860, Keckly arrived in Washington, D.C., where she found work as a seamstress. After a dress she created for Mary Randolph Custis Lee, the wife of Robert E. Lee, was widely praised at a reception for the Prince of Wales, Keckly received numerous commissions from prominent southern women. Beginning in November 1860, she was employe...
The rise of ready-to-wear clothing at the end of the nineteenth century depressed demand for custom dresses, which further contributed to the decline of Keckly’s Washington business. Keckly sold some of the mementoes she had from the Lincolns, including the cloak Mary Lincoln wore on the night of her husband’s assassination, to a Chicago collector ...
May 10, 2024 · Elizabeth Keckley (born February 1818, Dinwiddie county, Virginia, U.S.—died May 26, 1907, Washington, D.C.) was an American dressmaker, author, and philanthropist who purchased her and her son’s freedom from slavery and who later became the modiste for first lady Mary Todd Lincoln.
Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (February 1818 – May 1907) was an American seamstress, activist, and writer who lived in Washington, D.C. She was the personal dressmaker and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. She wrote an autobiography.
Dec 6, 2012 · Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley is best known as Mary Lincoln’s dressmaker and confidant and as the author of Behind the Scenes By Elizabeth Keckley, Formerly a Slave, But More Recently Modiste, and Friend to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (1868).
Apr 24, 2013 · Elizabeth Keckley was born into slavery in 1818 in Virginia. Although she encountered one hardship after another, with sheer determination, a network of supporters and valuable dressmaking skills ...
