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Growing up in slavery / Sylviane A. Diouf.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection E443 .D55 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Diouf, Sylviane A. (Sylviane Anna), 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved children--United States--Social conditions--Juvenile literature.
- Enslaved children.
- African American children--Social conditions--Juvenile literature.
- African American children.
- Slavery--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
- Slavery.
- Plantation life--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
- Plantation life.
- Child slaves.
- African American children--Social conditions.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Juvenile materials.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 96 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brookfield, Connecticut : The Millbrook Press, [©2001].
- Summary:
- Examines what life was like for children who grew up as slaves in the United States, describing the conditions in which they lived, the work they did, how they were educated, and their efforts to obtain freedom.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Listening to the Children of Slavery
- African Children: From Freedom to Slavery
- Enslaved from Birth
- Life and Work
- Children at Play
- Education for Life
- In Search of Freedom.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-94) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has stamp "Caledonia Branch East Cleveland Public Library Aug 22, 2001".
- ISBN:
- 0761317635
- 9780761317630
- OCLC:
- 44131696
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