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On October 8, 1852, Maria Perkins, an enslaved woman in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, addressed a letter to her husband, also enslaved. In the letter, she writes that their son Albert has been sold to a trader, that she fears that she too might be sold, and that she wants their family reunited. Perkins was literate, uncommon among slaves, and all that is known about her comes from the sole letter.

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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Scholastic Corporation Scottsville, Virginia Metaphor David Brion Davis Ulrich Bonnell Phillips University of North Carolina Press Dylan C. Penningroth Works about American slavery Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown University of Georgia Press Long s Slave narrative Slavery in the United States Baker Publishing Group 19th-century American slaves 19th-century American writers African-American women writers African-American writers American women non-fiction writers Walter Dean Myers Writers from Charlottesville, Virginia Greenville, Virginia Harvard University Press 19th-century African-American women 19th-century American women writers American letter writers Women letter writers Charlottesville, Virginia Augusta County, Virginia Case study Word by Word Yale University Yale University Press Old Southwest University of South Carolina Press
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quote	Charllotesville Oct 8th 1852 Dear Husband I write you a letter to let you know of my distress my master has sold albert to a trader onmonday court day and myself and other child is for sale also and I want to you let hear from you very soon before next cort if you can I dont know when I dont want you to wait till chrismas I want you to tell dr Hamelton or your master if either will buy me they can attend to it know and then I can go after wards I dont want a trader to get me they asked me if I had got any person to buy me and I told them no they took me to the court houste too they never put me up a man buy the name of brady bought albe rt and is gone I dont kow whare they say he lives in scott esville my things is in several places some is in staun ton and if I should be sold I dont kow what will be come of them I dont expect to meet with the luck to get that way till I am quite heart sick nothing more I am and ever will be your kind Wife Maria Perkins To Richard Perkins (en)
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has abstract	On October 8, 1852, Maria Perkins, an enslaved woman in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, addressed a letter to her husband, also enslaved. In the letter, she writes that their son Albert has been sold to a trader, that she fears that she too might be sold, and that she wants their family reunited. Perkins was literate, uncommon among slaves, and all that is known about her comes from the sole letter. Ulrich Bonnell Phillips discovered the letter and published it in 1929. Christopher Hager, in his book Word by Word (2013), critically analyzes the document as a case study, suggesting that throughout the letter her writing moves from correspondence to frantic diary. Often cited as an example of slave writing, Perkins's letter is quoted by textbooks to illustrate slaves' personal struggle, heartbreak, and strategic thinking. (en)
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