Dear Master by Randall M Miller

Dear Master by Randall M Miller

Offers 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.

This is a collection of letters from both Skipwith families to Cocke dating from 1834-1865, 'probably the largest and fullest epistolary record left by an American slave family'"—Washington Post

"This is a devastating book. . . . It is a painful book, yes. It is a dangerous book, destructive of one's own assumptions. It is also a very absorbing work, a book that goes a long way toward breaking the riddles posed by an extremely complex chapter of American history. Pain and all, it should be read."—Philadelphia Inquirer

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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ISBN 13	9780820323794
ISBN 10	0820323799
Title	Dear Master
Author	Randall M Miller
Series	Brown Thrasher Books
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Georgia Press
Year published	2004-01-30
Number of pages	304
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