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Black hands, white sails the story of African-American whalers
| Title | Black hands, white sails the story of African-American whalers |
| Names | McKissack, Pat. |
| McKissack, Fredrick. |
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| Book Number | DB051501 |
| Title Status | Download Only |
| Medium | Digital Book |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Annotation | A history of African American whalers between 1730 and 1880, describing their contribution to the whaling industry and their role in the abolition movement. Due to limited job opportunities, both free blacks and runaway slaves worked as sailors despite the low pay and savage conditions. For grades 6-9. Coretta Scott King Honor Book. 1999. For grades 6-9. Coretta Scott King Honor Book. 1999. |
| Narrator | Young, Chuck. |
| Local Subject | History, United States - HUS |
| Juvenile Book - JU | |
| History - HST | |
| Juvenile Non-Fiction - JN | |
| Audience Notes | Male narrator. |
| For grades 6-9. |
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| Award winner. |
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| LC Subject | Whaling - History - Juvenile literature |
| African American whalers - Biography - Juvenile literature |
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| Whalers - Juvenile literature |
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| African Americans - Biography - Juvenile literature |
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| Call Number | j639.280896073 JNF |
| Language | English |
| Released | 1999 |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 1999 |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, c1999. |