In the hollow of your hand
Subtitle: slave lullabies
By: collected by Alice McGill ; pictures by Michael Cummings.
Contributors: Cummings, Michael, 1945- ill.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Children's poetry, American -- History and criticism -- Juvenile literature.; American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Juvenile literature.; Lullabies, English -- United States -- History and criticism -- Juvenile literature.; African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism -- Juvenile literature.; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- Juvenile literature.; Slaves -- United States -- Intellectual life -- Juvenile literature.; Children's poetry, American.; American poetry -- African American authors.; Lullabies, , English -- United States.; Slavery -- Juvenile poetry.; Mother and child -- Juvenile poetry.; African Americans -- Juvenile poetry.; Sleep -- Juvenile poetry.; African Americans -- Poetry.; American poetry -- African American authors.; Slavery -- Poetry.; Mother and child -- Poetry.; Sleep -- Poetry.; Lullabies.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Juvenile poetry.; Poetry.
Description: 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.