Recently, I noticed on a friend's blog posting an article about a Black Dressmaker who went from Slavery to the White House. Elizabeth Keckley was the former slave who bought her freedom and became the personal dressmaker, stylist and confidant to First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. What an incredible story. This would be amazing today but in the early 1800's for a person to be born into slavery in 1818 and then to sew her way out of servitude and into the White House is an incredible story. One that we do not hear about.
Keckly who became skilled as a dressmaker managed to negotiate and arrange for her freedom paying it off in 1860. By 1861, she had a full atelier in Washington, D.C. She became the dressmaker and confidant to Mary Todd Lincoln.
You can read her story at www.styleite.com/media/elizabeth-keckly-black-history-month/
Maybe you will discover the story of others who deserve to have their story told.
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