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In the hollow of your hand : slave lullabies /
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| Author |
McGill, Alice
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| Call Number |
j811.008 MCG |
| Publisher |
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, |
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Subject
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Children's poetry, American -- African American authors.
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Lullabies, American -- African American authors.
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Slavery in literature
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Mother and child
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African Americans
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Sleep
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African Americans -- Poetry.
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American poetry -- African American authors.
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Slavery -- Poetry.
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Mother and child -- Poetry.
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Juvenile literature.
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| 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 |
| Hold Requests |
0 |
| Bib No. |
691627 |
