Title: Up before daybreak
Subtitle: people and cotton in America
Description: In this stunning nonfiction volume, award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson weaves the stories of slaves, sharecroppers, and mill workers into a tapestry illuminating the history of cotton in America.

In UP BEFORE DAYBREAK, acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson captures the voices of the forgotten men, women, and children who worked in the cotton industry in America over the centuries. The voices of the slaves who toiled in the fields in the South, the poor sharecroppers who barely got by, and the girls who gave their lives to the New England mills spring to life through oral histories, archival photos, and Hopkinson's engaging narrative prose style. These stories are amazing and often heartbreaking, and they are imbedded deep in our nation's history.
Subjects: Sharecroppers, Cotton trade, Social aspects of Cotton growing, Cotton picking, Juvenile literature, Baumwollhandel, Textile workers, Südstaaten, Working class, Baumwollindustrie, Slavery, Slaves, Baumwollanbau, History, Social aspects of Cotton picking, Social aspects of Cotton trade, Cotton growing, Cotton farmers, Biography, Farmers, Social aspects, Cotton, Reading Level-Grade 5, Reading Level-Grade 4, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 8, Cotton manufacture, United states, social conditions, United states, history, juvenile literature
Places: United States, USA