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Maroons : escaped slave communities.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection HT1048 .M3 1995
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Price, Sally, author.
Hancock, Ian F., author.
Bilby, Kenneth M., 1953- author.
Contributor:
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Maroons--Juvenile literature.
Maroons.
Genre:
Juvenile works.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
40 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Peterborough, NH : Cobblestone Publiishing, Inc., 1995.
Contents:
From slavery to a new life / Sally Price
The flying contest / Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovitz
Arts for every day: the Suriname Maroons / Sally Price
A rich mixture: Maroon languages / Ian Hancock
South and West, the Seminole Maroons / Ian Hancock
A separate identity, the Maroons of Jamaica / Kenneth Bilby
Seminole patchwork / Florence Temko
Rich coconut milk / E. Barrie Kavasch.
Notes:
Cover title.
Volume XI, Number VIII April 1995 issue of Faces, the magazine about people.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy addressed to Terrell Jr. High School Library, Washington, D.C.
Other Format:
Online version: Maroons.
OCLC:
32915878

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