In the time of the drums
By: Kim L. Siegelson ; illustrated by Brian Pinkney.
Contributors: Pinkney, J. Brian, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for children
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Slave insurrections -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.; Slave insurrections -- Fiction.; African Americans -- Fiction.; Igbo (African people) -- Fiction.; Grandmothers -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: Mentu, an American-born slave boy, watches his beloved grandmother, Twi, lead the insurrection at Teakettle Creek of Ibo people arriving from Africa on a slave ship.