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Author Bial, Raymond.

Title The strength of these arms : life in the slave quarters / Raymond Bial.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA Fic Bial Str 1997    Available  ---  Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Description 40 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
age Children
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 39-40).
Summary Describes how slaves were able to preserve some elements of their African heritage despite the often brutal treatment they experienced on Southern plantations.
Provenance Gift of Susan Mandel Glazer.
Subject Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Slavery.
Southern States.
History.
Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
Enslaved persons.
Social conditions.
African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans.
African Americans -- Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literature.
Manners and customs.
Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Plantation life.
Southern States -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- Social life and customs.
Enslaved persons -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form History.
Juvenile works.
Added Title Life in the slave quarters
ISBN 0395773946
9780395773949