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Slavery time when I was chillun / [edited by] Belinda Hurmence. Illustrated with photographs.

LIBRA - Rare E444 .S6 1997 Banks copy
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Hurmence, Belinda, editor.
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Enslaved children--Southern States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Enslaved children.
African Americans--Southern States--Interviews--Juvenile literature.
African Americans.
Slavery.
History.
Southern States.
Slavery--Southern States--History--19th century--Juvenile literature.
Southern States--Biography--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Biography.
Enslaved persons.
Slavery--Southern States.
Genre:
Interviews.
Juvenile Biography.
Literature.
Biographies.
History.
Juvenile works.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 96 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1997.
Summary:
Twelve oral histories of former slaves selected from the more than 2000 interviewed as part of the Slave Narratives of the Library of Congress for the Works Progress Administration in 1936.
Contents:
James Bolton
Fannie Moore
Tempie Herndon Durham
Abram Sells
Mingo White
Gus Smith
Lucinda Davis
Sam McAllum
Charley Mitchell
Frankie Goole
Ellen Betts
Maggie Wesmoland.
Notes:
Designed by Gary Bernal. Text set in Sabon."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-98).
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy has postcard and two color photographs of the Amistad Murals painted by Hale Woodruff laid in.
ISBN:
0399230483
9780399230486
0399231943
9780399231940
9780613058834
0613058836
9781435278004
1435278003
OCLC:
36045866

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