"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 reveals the relationship of two generations of the Skipwith family with the Virginia planter John Hartwell Cocke.
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ISBN:0801411343
Physical Description:281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. print
Publisher:Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c1978.
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