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Days of Jubilee : the end of slavery in the United States / Patricia C. & Fredrick L. McKissack.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection E453 .M28 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017.
- McKissack, Fredrick, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American Civil War (1861-1865).
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States--Juvenile literature.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States--Sources--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans--History--To 1863--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--History--To 1863--Sources--Juvenile literature.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Juvenile literature.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources--Juvenile literature.
- Slavery--History.
- African Americans--History--To 1863.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- Coretta Scott King honor books.
- Local Subjects:
- Coretta Scott King honor books.
- Genre:
- Juvenile materials.
- Curriculum resource.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Sources.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, [2], 134 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm
- Edition:
- [1st ed.]
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scholastic Press, [2003].
- Summary:
- Uses slave narratives, letters, diaries, military orders, and other documents to chronicle the various stages leading to the emancipation of slaves in the United States.
- Contents:
- Road to Jubilee got many twists and turns
- Freedom a-comin', anyhow
- Be back 'fore breakfast
- General says we free
- Hope in the heart
- I have made up my mind
- Stomp it down
- I'm free and I'm comin' to free you
- No time for tears out here
- Sherman, Gen'ral Moses
- Blacks in gray
- Hallelujah broke out
- Lincoln belongs to the ages
- Freedom don't make you rich
- No more slavery
- ever.
- Notes:
- "First edition, February 2003."
- "Book design by David Caplan."
- "The text type was set in 13-pt. AGaramond."
- "Jacket art © 2002 by Leo and Dianne Dillon."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-130) and index.
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Author, Honor, 2004
- 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 embossed stamp "JB Library of Joanna Banks" on title page.
- ISBN:
- 059010764X
- 9780590107648
- OCLC:
- 48536633
- Online:
- Publisher description
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