Title Page
Item Nr:
B 109257
Title:
Black Hands, White Sails: African American Whalers
Grade Lvl:
IJS
Author:
McKissack, Patricia
Length:
152
Prod/Pub:
Scholastic
Copyright:
1999
Series:
Book Type:
N
Biographee:
Copies:
0
Loan Period:
42 days
Subtitle: The Story of African American Whalers. Describes contributions to the whaling industry and their role in the abolitionist movement between 1730 and 1880. Coretta Scott King Honor book. AR and Follett RL 8.0. RC 9.0. Lexile 1130.
Subjects:
791 - AFRICAN AMERICANS
58 - AMERICA--HISTORY/AMERICAN
1400 - AUTHOR, BLACK (BOOKS BY)
1202 - BIOGRAPHY--COLLECTIONS
1681 - LEXILE 1100-1199
770 - MULTICULTURAL/MULTICULTURALISM
1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES
1108 - U.S.--HISTORY
1584 - U.S.--HISTORY--19TH CENTURY
1111 - U.S.--HISTORY--COLONIAL PERIOD
1171 - WHALING