Songs--United States--20th Century; Popular Music--United States
Cover: drawing of a saddened African American male sitting on the steps to a locked house, while an African American female peers out from behind the curtains; photo inset of two Caucasian males in blackface, listed as ""Ward and Wade""
Slavery; Slaves; Child rearing; Antislavery movements; Southern States -- Identity; Plantation life; Gerdine, Thomas Cobb; Gerdine, William Louis Crawford, d. 1878; Marriage; Travel;
Roxana writes of the raising of Tom Cobb Gerdine and southern children in general; her worries about bringing a slave north to visit with her because of their father's abolitionist views; talking off of her mourning (probably for her brother, Titus...