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In the hollow of your hand : slave lullabies /

Author McGill, Alice
Call Number j811.008 MCG
Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin,
Subject Children's poetry, American -- African American authors.
Lullabies, American -- African American authors.
Slavery in literature
Mother and child
African Americans
Sleep
African Americans -- Poetry.
American poetry -- African American authors.
Slavery -- Poetry.
Mother and child -- Poetry.
Juvenile literature.
Title Statement In the hollow of your hand : slave lullabies / collected by Alice McGill ; pictures by Michael Cummings.
Description 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm. + 1 compact disc (4 3/4in.)
Summary A collection of lullabies orally transmitted by African-American slaves revealing their hardships and sorrows as well as soothing notes of well-being and belief in a better time to come.
Contributors Cummings, Michael, 1945-
ISBN 0395857554
LCCN 97020269
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Bib No. 691627
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