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The strength of these arms : life in the slave quarters / Raymond Bial.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection E443 .B46 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bial, Raymond.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Southern States--History--Juvenile literature.
- Slavery.
- Enslaved persons--Southern States--Social conditions--Juvenile literature.
- Enslaved persons.
- African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Southern States--Social life and customs--Juvenile literature.
- Plantation life--Southern States--History--Juvenile literature.
- Plantation life.
- Southern States--Social conditions--Juvenile literature.
- Southern States.
- Slavery--Southern States--History.
- Enslaved persons--Social life and customs.
- Southern States--History.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- African Americans--Social life and customs.
- Enslaved persons--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Children's nonfiction.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 40 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Life in the slave quarters
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.
- Summary:
- Describes how slaves were able to preserve some elements of their African heritage despite the often brutal treatment they experienced on Southern plantations.
- Notes:
- "The text of this book is set in 14 point Goudy."
- "Book design by S. M. Sherman, Ars Agassiz, Cambridge, Massachusetts."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 39-40).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copies 1 & 2: dustjackets retained.
- ISBN:
- 0395773946 :
- 9780395773949
- OCLC:
- 36037834
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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