Meet Elizabeth Keckley-Presidential Seamstress
Roger Matile Room 72 Polk Street, Oswego, IL, United StatesInitially known for the clothes she created for Mary Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln’s wife), Elizabeth Keckley gained a reputation as a first-rate dressmaker while enslaved. For over two and a half years, she used her hands and needle to provide for the seventeen people of her Master’s household. After Elizabeth’s freedom, she eventually started her […]