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7. SORRY for this error of mine! It was Mrs. Jefferson Davis!

Sat Feb 27, 2021, 10:21 AM

Feb 2021

I went back and checked in the book Behind the Scenes by Elizabeth Keckley. She was a former slave, who taught herself to sew and read and write very well, and built up a sewing business in Washington DC just before the Civil War. Mrs. Jefferson Davis was one of her clients. At one point, Mrs. Jefferson Davis confided that her husband and other men were preparing for a civil war, and she urged Elizabeth Keckley to go south with the Davis family to avoid the danger and the hatred northern whites supposedly felt for black people. Mrs. Davis told Mrs. Keckley that Jefferson Davis was set to be the Confederate President, that the south would surely win the war, and that the Davis family would surely be moving into the White House soon after that. "I will take good care of you," Mrs. Davis said.

Mrs. Keckley was not deceived by this statement.

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