The Burwell School and the Burwell household

Hillsborough’s girls’ school, 1837–1857, and the enslaved people who worked in the household, Elizabeth Keckly among them.

“Burwell family slave, bought freedom, 1855. Dressmaker & friend to Mary Todd Lincoln. Published her memoir, 1868. Lived here, 1830s.”

State historical marker: G-115: Elizabeth Keckly 1818-1907

60 works in the index name this event.

Context

What it was and why it mattered

NCpedia: Burwell School NCpedia

Burwell School Historic Site: our history Site steward The site's own account of the school, the household, and Elizabeth Keckly

Historical marker G-115: Elizabeth Keckly 1818-1907 NC Highway Historical Marker Burwell family slave, bought freedom, 1855. Dressmaker & friend to Mary Todd Lincoln. Published her memoir, 1868. Lived here, 1830s.

National Register: Burwell School National Register nomination Nomination (9/15/1970), Hillsborough: history, description, and sources for the property

Marker: Burwell School Historic Site Historical Marker Database (HMdb.org)

NCpedia: Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly NCpedia

Ask locally

Organizations that keep the county’s own knowledge

Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection (OCPL) The county library’s local-history room in Hillsborough: books, maps, microfilm, family files, and staff who know the county

In the index

Works across North Carolina libraries and archives whose catalog description names this event. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it.

Anna Burwell and the business of being a Presbyterian minister's wife in North Carolina, 1835-1857

Sylvia D. Hoffert · 2019 · Historical Research Office, Office of Archives and History

UNC

Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free People of Color Who Worked at the Burwell School, 1837-1857

Historic Hillsborough Commission (Hillsborough, N.C.) · 2019

OCPL

The Elizabeth Keckley Reader

McKoy, Sheila Smith · 2016

Duke NC State NC Cardinal OCPL Durham Chapel Hill PL NCCU

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

Chiaverini, Jennifer · 2013

NC Cardinal OCPL Durham

An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley

Rinaldi, Ann · 2007

NC Cardinal NCCU Durham

Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave

Fleischner, Jennifer · 2003

NC Cardinal OCPL

Mary Lincoln's Dressmaker: Elizabeth Keckley's Remarkable Rise from Slave to White House Confidante

Rutberg, Becky · 1995

NC Cardinal Durham

The Book of Burwell Students

Engstrom, Mary Claire · 1979 · Historic Hillsborough Commission

NC Cardinal UNC OCPL Durham

Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

Keckley, Elizabeth · 1868

NCCU

Antebellum Hillsborough, Slavery, and Enslaved and Free Peoples of Color Who Worked at the Burwell School -1837-1857: A Study of the Research Committee of the Burwell School Historic Site, Janie Morris and Betty Eldenier, Co-chairs

2019

Durham

Antebellum Hillsborough, slavery, and enslaved and free peoples of color who worked at the Burwell School, 1837-1857 : a study of the Research Committee of the Burwell School Historic Site

Morris, Janie, · 2019 · Compiled and presented by Burwell School Historic Site

NC Cardinal

The Burwell School (1837-1857) in historic Hillsborough, North Carolina.

Historic Hillsborough Commission (Hillsborough, N.C.), author · 1965 · Historic Hillsborough Commission

UNC

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