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

Up before daybreak : cotton and people in America

Hopkinson, Deborah (Author).

Summary: Read about the importance of cotton in America's history and learn about the lives of people who picked it and worked with it.

Item details

  • ISBN: 0545019907 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0439639018
  • ISBN: 9780439639019
  • Physical Description: print
    120 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, c2006.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-114) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: A shoeful of cotton seeds -- Up before daybreak: cotton and slavery -- Mountains of cotton -- At the clang of a bell: the mill girls of Lowell -- From can to can't: sharecroppers and tenant farmers -- They called us lintheads: mill villages of the south -- Cotton pickers: the forces of change -- Mill workers: the last generation -- A hundred pounds of cotton: children then and now.

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