The House Servant's Directory
Roberts, Robert / Hodges, Graham Russell![The House Servant's Directory](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/202/20263793/CHSBZCOP0320263793.jpg)
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 governor of Massachusetts (and ancestor of the novelist ...