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In the hollow of your hand
In the hollow of your hand: slave lullabies
Cummings, Michael
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2000.
ISBN: 0395857554  

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.

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 26 cm. + disk.

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Libraries this book has an entry in:

•  University of Virginia (last modified on 11/27/2008)
•  Purdue University Library (last modified on 09/27/2008)
•  University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (last modified on 04/18/2008)
•  California State University, Pomona (last modified on 07/25/2004)
•  University of Louisiana at Monroe (last modified on 11/17/2003)

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