In the Hollow of Your Hand: Slave Lullabies

by Alice McGill

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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.

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Poetry, Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Picture Books
DDC/MDS
811.008Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican poetry in EnglishSpecific kinds of poetry {only by more than one author}Modified standard subdivisionsCollections of literary texts
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PS310 .N4 .M37Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literaturePoetry
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