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Hush harbor : praying in secret / Freddi Williams Evans ; illustrated by Erin Bennett Banks.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.E8853 Hus 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Evans, Freddi Williams.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freedom of religion--Juvenile fiction.
- Freedom of religion.
- Christian life--Juvenile fiction.
- Christian life.
- Slavery--Juvenile fiction.
- Slavery.
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Southern States--History--1775-1865--Juvenile fiction.
- Southern States.
- Slavery--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Freedom of religion--Fiction.
- Christian life--Fiction.
- Southern States--History--1775-1865--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [32] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis ; New York : Carolrhoda Books [a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., ©2008].
- Summary:
- While Simmy watches for danger from high in a tree, other slaves gather in a hidden spot in the woods to sing and pray together in their own way, risking their lives in pursuit of religious freedom. Includes historical facts about hush, or brush, arbors and the churches that grew from them.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has "Reinforced Binding".
- Banks Collection copy has [2] packing slips from Amazon laid in.
- ISBN:
- 9780822579656
- 0822579650
- OCLC:
- 174040098
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