Dear Master: Letters of a Slave Family"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. The letters, dating from 1834 to 1865, fall into two