The house servant's directory, or, A monitor for private families
By: Robert Roberts ; introduction by Jessica Harris
Contributors: Harris, Jessica, writer of introduction
Edition: Facsimile edition.
Series: American antiquarian cookbook collection
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Kansas City, Missouri
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781449431723
Subjects: Household employees; Handbooks, manuals; Formulas, recipes
Description: "In 1827 ... African American Robert Roberts penned The house servant's directory, a manual for house servants, which offers a remarkable glimpse into the upstairs/downstairs world of America's early nineteeth-century elite."--Introduction.
Notes: Facsimile reprint with new introduction. Originally published: Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1827.

"Reproduced by permission from the volume in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), Worcester, Massachusetts"--Preliminary page.