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Title: "Dear Master": Letters of a Slave Family
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Date: 1978
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0801411343
ISBN 13: 9780801411342
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition.
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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Synopsis

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 second group of letters, written by George Skipwith and his daughter Lucy, originate from Cocke's Alabama plantation, an experimental work community to which Cocke sent his most talented, responsible slaves to prepare them for the moral and educational challenges of emancipation.

"Dear Master" affirms that these slaves and former slaves were not simply victims; they were actors in a complex human drama. In his new preface, Miller reevaluates his book in light of changes in the historiography of American slavery over the past decade.

About the Author

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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