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The Africans / Jen Green.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection E185 .G755 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green, Jen, author.
- Series:
- We came to North America.
- We came to North America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--History--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans.
- Slavery--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
- Slavery.
- African Americans--History.
- Slavery--History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 32 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crabtree Publishing Company, [2000]
- Summary:
- Recounts how Africans were originally brought to North America as slaves and how they eventually flourished in the face of overwhelming prejudice.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A proud heritage
- Eyewitness to history: Venture Smith
- Journey into slavery
- Eyewitness to history: Olaudah Equiano
- First impressions
- A life of slavery
- Protests against slavery
- Abolition and reconstruction
- Eyes on the prize
- The fight culture
- Black culture
- Customs and traditions
- Here to stay
- Glossary and index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0778701840
- 9780778701842
- 0778701980
- 9780778701989
- OCLC:
- 43445909
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