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Up before daybreak : cotton and people in America  Cover Image Book Book

Up before daybreak : cotton and people in America

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  • ISBN: 0439639018
  • Physical Description: 120 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
    print
  • Publisher: New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, c2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-114) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Summary, etc.: Presents an overview of the history of the cotton industry in the United States, from colonial times to the mid-twentieth century.
Target Audience Note:
3-6 Follett Library Resources
6.9 Follett Library Resources
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR 7.0 3.0
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 7.0 3
Awards Note:
A Junior Library Guild selection.
Subject: Slavery
Slaves Biography
Cotton trade
Cotton growing
Cotton picking
Slavery United States Juvenile literature
Working class United States Biography Juvenile literature
Textile workers United States Biography Juvenile literature
Sharecroppers United States Biography Juvenile literature
Cotton farmers United States Biography Juvenile literature
Slaves United States Biography Juvenile literature
Cotton trade Social aspects United States History Juvenile literature
Cotton growing Social aspects United States History Juvenile literature
Cotton picking Social aspects United States History Juvenile literature
Enslaved persons

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