Roots:

The African Background of American Culture
Through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

A National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute
for College Teachers at the
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

A Letter from Ellen Randolph Coolidge to Her Husband, Joseph Coolidge, 24 October 1858.

Selected from the University of Virginia Special Collections by Derryn Moten. Click on any image to see that image at full size

Introduction by Dumas Malone

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