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In the Hollow of Your Hand

by Alice McGill

A collection of lullabies orally transmitted by African-American slaves revealing their hardships and sorrows as well as soothing notes of well-being and belief in a better time to come.

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Juvenile literatureAmerican poetrySlavesJuvenile poetryEnglish LullabiesMother and childHistory and criticismPoetrySlaveryChildren's poetry, American

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