About the Author

George E. Boulukos is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University and the author of The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture.

Reviews

“Hammond led a fascinatingly diverse life, and his memoirs will add a great deal to our understanding of eighteenth-century status systems and the life experience of the nonelite.” —Kristina StrauB, Carnegie Mellon University, author of Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain