Elizabeth Hobbs KECKLEY

Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley was an American seamstress, activist, and writer who lived in Washington, D.C. She was the dressmaker (modiste) and confidante of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. An African American, Keckley also started the Contraband Relief Association in August 1862, later called the Ladies’ Freedmen and Soldiers’ Relief Association, to help formerly enslaved people and the families of Black soldiers during the Civil War.

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