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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