"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, 1987M.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