Up before daybreak : cotton and people in America
- Title
- Up before daybreak : cotton and people in America / Deborah Hopkinson.
- Published by
- New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, c2006.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- 120 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Read about the importance of cotton in America's history and learn about the lives of people who picked it and worked with it.
- Subject
- Cotton growing
- Cotton picking
- Cotton trade
- Slavery
- Slavery > United States
- Cotton growing > Social aspects > United States > History
- Cotton farmers > United States > Biography
- Cotton picking > Social aspects > United States > History
- Cotton trade > Social aspects > United States > History
- Slaves > United States > Biography
- Slaves > Biography
- Contents
- A shoeful of cotton seeds -- Up before daybreak -- Mountains of cotton -- At the clang of a bell -- From can to can't -- They called us lintheads -- Cotton pickers -- Mill workers.
- Call number
- J 331.76 H
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-114) and index.
- Author
- Hopkinson, Deborah.
- Title
- Up before daybreak : cotton and people in America / Deborah Hopkinson.
- Imprint
- New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-114) and index.
- LCCN
- 2005008128
- ISBN
- 0439639018 (hardcover)
- 9780439639019
- Research call number
- J 331.76 H