Download or read book Dear Master written by Randall M. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Master is a rare firsthand look at the values, self-perception, and private life of the black American slave. The fullest known record left by an American slave family, this collection of more than two hundred letters -- including seven discovered since the book's original appearance -- reveals the relationship of two generations of the Skipwith family with the Virginia planter John Hartwell Cocke. - Back cover.