Dear Master. Letters of a Slave Family.

MILLER, RANDALL M. [ED.].

ISBN 10: 0801411343 / ISBN 13: 9780801411342

Published by Ithaca-London, Cornell University Press. 1978, 1978

About this Item

Original publisher's black cloth hardback, silver lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: 282pp., [ij], 16 illustrations, 2 maps, foreword, members of the families Cocke & Skipwith, introductory essay with illustrations, letters with footnotes, bibliographical essay, index, colophon. Very fine copy. Original ducuments link two continents - providing rare insights into plantation life in America and colonial life in Africa.

Seller Inventory # 142794

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dear Master. Letters of a Slave Family.
• Publisher: Ithaca-London, Cornell University Press. 1978
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801411343
• ISBN 13: 9780801411342
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

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

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"