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"Dear Master" : letters of a slave family / edited by Randall M. Miller.
LIBRA E444 .D42
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Skipwith family.
- Cocke, John Hartwell, 1780-1866.
- Cocke, John Hartwell.
- African Americans--Colonization--Liberia--Sources.
- African Americans.
- Slavery--United States--History--Sources.
- Slavery.
- African Americans--Colonization.
- United States.
- History.
- Liberia.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [1978]
- Summary:
- For those interested in Stevenson or the writers he influenced--Borges and Greene, among others. This collection of more than 200 letters--including seven discovered since the book's original appearance in 1978--reveals the relationship of two generations of the Skipworth family with the Virginia planter John Hartwell Cocke. With a new preface to this edition by editor Miller (history, Saint Joseph's U., Philadelphia). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography pages [265]-269.
- ISBN:
- 0801411343
- OCLC:
- 3750668
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