House Servant's Directory, or, A Monitor for Private Families: Comprising Hints on the Arrangement and Performance of Servants' Work

Robert Roberts'' The House Servant''s Directory, first published in 1827 and the standard for household management for decades afterward, is remarkable for several reasons: It is one of the first books written by an African American and issued by a commercial press, and it was written while Roberts (ca. 1780-1860) was in the employ of Christopher Gore (1758-1827), a former senator from and governo...