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Author:

Lyons, Kelly Starling.

Title:

Ellen's broom / Kelly Starling Lyons ; illustrated by Daniel Minter.

Publisher:

G.P. Putnam's Sons,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Marriage customs and rites--Juvenile fiction.
African American families--Juvenile fiction.

Other Authors:

Minter, Daniel. ill

Summary:

This story of an African American wedding explains the history of the custom of jumping the broom, and the time when slaves had not been allowed to legally marry before the post-slavery Reconstruction era.

ISBN:

0399250034
9780399250033

OCLC:

(OCoLC)731911644

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