Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America
By Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher
Scholastic
Imprint
Scholastic
ISBN
By Deborah Hopkinson
0439639018
Awards and Honors 2007 NCSS Carter G. Woodson Award, HonorUp Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America
18.99
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SKU
9780439639019J
Child slaves who "had to pick 150 pounds . . . a day, or get a whoppin'." Young girls working in New England mills, who endured fourteen-hour days among the "buzzing and hissing and whizzing of pulleys and rollers and spindles and flyers." Sharecroppers living on borrowed land, in houses "so rotten you can jest take up the boards in your hands and cromple ’em up." The true story of cotton in America is told here by the people who lived it. Further reading. Bibliography. Notes. Index.
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