Accession number
PML 198579
Creator
Huggins, Nathan Irvin, 1927-1989.
Published
New York : Pantheon Books, ©1977.
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe, Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020.
Description
xvi, 250 pages ; 22 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Summary
Examines the experience of slavery for Black persons in the United States from 1619 to the post-Civil War Reconstruction period.
Binding
Orange cloth, lettered in gold and orange, in pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Tom Feelings (1933-2003), the Brooklyn-born illustrator who was the first Black artist to receive a Caldecott Honor.
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