Jeff Hamilton, only thirteen when purchased in 1853 by Sam Houston
at a slave auction in Huntsville, Texas, was Houston's personal
body servant during the period Houston was U.S. Senator, during
both governorships, and was with Houston at his death. Originally
published in 1940 shortly before Hamilton died at age 100, these
memoirs contain Hamilton's fascinating and intimate viewpoints of
the important issues during the last years of Houston's life.

Aware of Hamilton's narrative abilities and of the historical 
importance of his first-hand accounts of one of our nation's most 
prominent figures, the 1936 Centennial Association of Texas 
commissioned Lenoir Hunt, author of Bluebonnets and Blood to 
interview Hamilton to "save for posterity his rare recollections . . . one 
of the very few men now living who passed through the hates and 
passions of the 1850s and 1860s and who may give us an eyewitness 
picture of life and conditions in that eventful era." And what a picture! 
Hamilton saw "most of the meanness as well as the good things that 
were going on about me. . . . there are not many boys who have the 
distinction of being whipped by one of the great men of history."

Containing revealing and intimate anecdotes nowhere else
published, My Master is a valuable contribution to American
folklore and history. In Hamilton, Lenoir Hunt had found "a guileless 
old soul who could give me from an entirely new angle a simple 
account of the stirring times in which he lived . .  . an aged Boswell 
anxious to tell the inside story of the colorful empire-maker who had 
liberated a people and who directly and indirectly had added over a 
million square miles to the area of the United States."

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