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Author McGill, Alice.

Title In the hollow of your hand : slave lullabies / Alice McGill ; illustrated by Michael Cummings.

Imprint Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Non-Fiction  J 811.008 McG    ---  Available
Description [38] p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + 1 compact disc.
Summary A collection of lullabies orally transmitted by African-American slaves revealing their hardships and sorrows as well as soothing notes of well-being and belief in a better time to come.
Source Pritchett PPLY
Subject Children's poetry, American -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Juvenile literature
Lullabies, English -- United States -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Juvenile literature
Children's poetry, American -- African American authors.
Lullabies, English -- United States -- African American authors.
Slavery in literature -- Juvenile literature
Mother and child -- Juvenile poetry
African Americans -- Juvenile poetry
Sleep -- Juvenile poetry
Afro-Americans -- Poetry.
American poetry -- Afro-American authors.
Lullabies -- Afro-American authors.
Slavery -- Poetry.
Mother and child -- Poetry.
Sleep -- Poetry.
Added Author Cummings, Michael, 1945- illustrator.
ISBN 0395857554

 
    
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