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Randall M. (Hrsg.) Miller

Dear Master: Letters of a Slave Family

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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.The letters, dating from 1834 to 1865, fall into two groups. The first were written by Peyton Skipwith and his children from Liberia, where they settled after being freed in 1833 by Cocke, a devout Christian and enlightened slaveholder. The letters… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8203-2379-4
  • EAN: 9780820323794
  • Produktnummer: 1143655
  • Verlag: Univ Of Georgia Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
  • Seitenangabe: 297 S.
  • Masse: H23.2 cm x B15.8 cm x D2.0 cm 481 g
  • Gewicht: 481

Über den Autor


Randall M. Miller is a professor of history at Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia. He is the editor of The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, coeditor of The Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery and Shades of the Sunbelt, and coauthor of Ethnic and Racial Images in American Film and Television.

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