"Dear Master": Letters of a Slave Family - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801411343 ISBN 13: 9780801411342

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1978

Synopsis

black cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket, 281 pp,

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Review

"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"

"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"

"An extraordinary book, not only because it so vividly reveals the hopes, ideals, religious values and family attitudes of one group of Virginia slaves but also because the editor has so gracefully interwoven the lives of the slaves and their master with important questions concerning slavery and race relations in the nineteenth century. . . . This well-edited volume, with is useful bibliography, is a most important addition to the literature of slavery and the Civil War era"--"Civil War History"

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"

An extraordinary book, not only because it so vividly reveals the hopes, ideals, religious values and family attitudes of one group of Virginia slaves but also because the editor has so gracefully interwoven the lives of the slaves and their master with important questions concerning slavery and race relations in the nineteenth century. . . . This well-edited volume, with is useful bibliography, is a most important addition to the literature of slavery and the Civil War era--"Civil War History"

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."

Edition details

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801411343
• ISBN 13: 9780801411342
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Miller Randall M.