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Black April / a novel by Julia Peterkin.
LIBRA 813 P442B
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peterkin, Julia, 1880-1961.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American families--Fiction.
- African American families.
- Gullahs.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- Plantation life--Fiction.
- Plantation life.
- Gullahs--Fiction.
- South Carolina--Fiction.
- South Carolina.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 315 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Co., [1927]
- Summary:
- The story of Black April "a giant negro foreman" of a plantation who dominates the lives and love affairs of all the other black folk. Poignant portrait of daily life and folk beliefs of the Gullah African-American of the South Carolina coast and nearby islands.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 25891184
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