Name: Black Hands, White Sails
Author: Patricia C. McKissack

Patricia C. McKissack

Fredrick McKissack

<span>Despite the dangers and challenges of whaling, many African-Americans took on the job between 1730 and 1880. A rare look at an important slice of American history describes their contributions to the whaling industry and their role in the abolitionist movement. </span>

Black Hands, White Sails

What Is Given from the Heart

Who Will Bell the Cat?

Let's Clap, Jump, Sing, and Shout; Dance, Spin, and Turn It Out!

Ol' Clip-Clop: A Ghost Story

The Visitors

Never Forgotten

John McKissack

Cyborg

The Clone Codes

Best Shot in the West: The Adventures of Nat Love

Stitchin' and Pullin': A Gee's Bend Quilt

The All-I'll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll

A Song for Harlem

A Friendship for Today

Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and other Wily Characters

Away West

Amistad: The Story of a Slave Ship

Abby Takes a Stand

Precious and the Boo Hag

Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl

Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595

Tippy Lemmey

Fredrick L. McKissack

Miami Jackson Sees It Through

Goin' Someplace Special

The Honest-to-Goodness Truth

Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919

A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859

Ma Dear's Aprons

Run Away Home

Rebels Against Slavery: American Slave Revolts

Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues

The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa

A Million Fish...More or Less

Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman?

The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural

Bugs!

Mirandy and Brother Wind

Flossie and the Fox

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