Dear Master
Subtitle: letters of a slave family
By: edited by Randall M. Miller.
Contributors: Miller, Randall M.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Skipwith family -- Correspondence.; Cocke, John Hartwell, 1780-1866 -- Correspondence.; Cocke family -- Correspondence.; Slaves -- Alabama -- Greene County -- Correspondence.; African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.; African Americans -- Liberia -- Correspondence.; Greene County (Ala.) -- History -- Sources.; Liberia -- History -- To 1847 -- Sources.; Liberia -- History -- 1847-1944 -- Sources.
Genres: Correspondence.; Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-285) and index.
"Brown Thrasher books."
Reprint. Originally published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c1978. With new introd.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the Brown Thrasher edition; title: Preface; title: The Cocke and Skipwith families; title: Introduction; title: Part 1 : Letters from Liberia, 1834-1861.; title: The Emigrés; title: Letters from Peyton Skipwith; title: Letters from Diana Skipwith; title: Letters from Nash Skipwith; title: Letters from Matilda Skipwith; title: Letters from James Skipwith; title: Part 2 : Letters from Alabama, 1847-1865.; title: The driver; title: Letters from George Skipwith; title: The house servant; title: Letters from Lucy Skipwith; title: Part 3 : More letters from Liberia.; title: Introduction; title: The letters; title: Bibliographical essay