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They came in chains : the story of the slave ships / by Milton Meltzer.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection E446 .M48 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meltzer, Milton, 1915-2009.
- Series:
- Great journeys (Benchmark Books (Firm))
- Great journeys
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
- Slavery.
- Slave trade--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
- Slave trade.
- Slavery--America--History--Juvenile literature.
- Slave trade--America--History--Juvenile literature.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Social conditions--Juvenile literature.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--America--Social conditions--Juvenile literature.
- Slavery--History.
- Slave trade--History.
- Enslaved persons--Social conditions.
- America.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Children's nonfiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 96 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Benchmark Books Marshall Cavendish [Corporation, ©2000].
- Summary:
- Describes the history and practice of slavery, particularly the African slave trade--its origins, growth, and demise from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
- Contents:
- Ancient practice
- Human cargo
- African boy kidnapped
- Hell on a slave ship
- Better to die
- or to revolt
- Enslaved in the Americas.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-94) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 076140967X
- 9780761409670
- OCLC:
- 40180414
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