Growing Up In Slavery
by Silviane Diouf
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Examines what life was like for children who grew up as slaves in the United States, describing the conditions in which they lived, the work they did, how they were educated, and their efforts to obtain freedom.Tags
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Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning historian specializing in the history of the African Diaspora. She is the author, notably, of Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas (NYU Press, 2013) and Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, and the editor of Fighting show more the Slave Trade: West African Strategies. She is Director of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library. show less
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- Important events
- Slave Trade
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Tween
- DDC/MDS
- 306.3 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Economic institutions
- LCC
- E443 .D55 — History of the United States United States Revolution to the Civil War, 1775/1783-1861 Slavery in the United States. Antislavery
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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