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Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters

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~1h 22min
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English
LANGUAGE
1
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Categories
History
Social Life And Customs
Slaves
Christmas
Juvenile
Published 1994 Scholastic 4 views
ISBN
0590430289, 9780590430289
Editions
Paperback
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Fredrick McKissack

African American children's author with his wife Patricia -- to be distinguished from his son Fredrick L. McKissack, Jr. who also wrote some books with his mother.

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THE CROPS have been harvested and sold, and the fields laid by till spring; the days have grown shorter and cooler, and the nights come faster and last longer...

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Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave quarters just before the Civil War.

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