"Dear Master" : : Letters of a Slave Family / / ed. by Randall M. Miller.

Unfolded in this extraordinary collection of letters is the story of an American slave family living in two worlds—Liberia and Alabama. Dating from 1834 to 1865, the letters give a rare glimpse into the inner lives of both slaves and freedmen. They reveal the relationship of two generations of the S...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1978
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 2 maps, 16 b&w photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Maps
  • Preface
  • The Cocke and Skipwith Families
  • Introduction
  • PART I. LETTERS FROM LIBERIA, 1834-1861
  • PART II. LETTERS FROM ALABAMA, 1847-1865
  • Bibliographical Essay
  • Index