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Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
A highly skilled seamstress, Keckley bought freedom for her and her son and went on to build a profitable business, which led to her close relationship with First-Lady Mary Lincoln, co-founding of the Contraband Relief Association, directing the Department of Sewing and Domestic Science Arts at Wilberforce University, and organizing a dress reform exhibit for the University at the Chicago World's Fair.
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