Contributions

  • Miller, Randall M. - Contributor

Publication

1990 - University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia

Language

English

Word Count

74,250 words, Guess

Page Count

297 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivedearmaster0000unse
  • ISBN-100820312304
  • ISBN-139780820312309
  • LibraryThing2870664
  • Library of Congress Control Number89020536
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780820312309
  • Open LibraryOL2199714M

Classifications

  • DDC976.1/00496073
  • LCCE444 .D42 1990
  • LCCE444.D42 1990

Description

Dear Master is a rare firsthand look at the values, self-perception, and private life of the black American slave. The fullest known record left by an American slave family, this collection of more than two hundred letters -- including seven discovered since the book's original appearance -- reveals the relationship of two generations of the Skipwith family with the Virginia planter John Hartwell Cocke. - Back cover.

Subjects

Topics

SlavesSourcesHistoryColonizationCorrespondenceLiberia, historyAfrican Americans

Genres

  • Sources
  • Correspondence

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