"A Perilous and Grievous Burden"

The Dilemma of the Antislavery Slaveholder
In Virginia during the Early National Period:
A Case Study of
General John Hartwell Cocke of Bremo

Frank Edgar Grizzard, Jr.
Emporia, Virginia

B.A., Virginia Commonwealth University, 1987
M.A., University of Virginia, 1989

A Thesis Presented to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Virginia in Candidacy for the Degree of Master of Arts

Corcoran Department of History
University of Virginia
May 1989

Copyright © Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. All Rights Reserved May 1989–2003

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