![]() ![]() Keckley was a household servant, or personal maid to Mary Todd Lincoln. As for me: My son died, fighting for the Union, wearing the Union blue. I never heard any ask what freedom will bring. "Negroes have been fighting and dying for freedom since the first of us was a slave. "What my people are to be, I can't say," she responds. Keckley's answer speaks both to her own experience and three centuries of oppression. Keckley assures the President that God will ensure the anti-slavery amendment is passed, Abraham Lincoln admits he has little familiarity with black people and wonders what part they will play in the reborn nation. Screenwriter Tony Kushner has called the scene "in many ways the cornerstone of the film."Īfter Mrs. Keckley, who is part of the White House retinue. The President, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, is having a night-time conversation with a woman of colour, Mrs. One of the most memorable scenes in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, which leads the Oscar race with 12 nominations, takes place four days before the vote on the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery. ![]()
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