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In the hollow of your hand : slave lullabies / collected by Alice McGill ; pictures by Michael Cummings. |
| Authors: | McGill, Alice |
| Call number: | j811.008 MCG |
| Publisher: | Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2000. |
| Publication date: | c2000. |
| 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: | In the hollow of your hand : slave lullabies / collected by Alice McGill ; pictures by Michael Cummings. |
| Physical description: | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm. + 1 compact disc (4 3/4in.) |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Added author: | Cummings, Michael, 1945- |
| ISBN: | 0395857554 |
| LCCN: | 97020269 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|691627 |
| Bib No.: | 691627 |