Format:
Book
Title:
Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters / by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack ; illustrated by John Thompson.
Author:
McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017
Call Number:
j975.03 McKissac
Publisher, Date:
New York : Scholastic, c1994.
Description:
68 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Summary:
Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.
Subjects:
Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
Christmas -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1865 -- Juvenile literature.
Coretta Scott King Award.
Other Author:
McKissack, Fredrick.
Thompson, John, 1940-
ISBN:
0590430270