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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. Moving deftly between two worlds, this beautifully illustrated book is a rich, historic tale of Christmastime on a Virginia plantation just before the Civil War. Full color. The year is 1859, and it's Christmastime on a Virginia Plantation. The slaves are setting up the Big House - where their masters live - for the festivities. The Big House is filled with warmth, colorful decorations, and delicious food ... but there is talk of war and a sense that times may be changing. In the quarters - where the slaves live - conditions are poor, dirty, and cold, but the slaves are filled with hope for better times ahead, and they sing songs of freedom.
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Social life and customs, Coretta Scott King Award, Plantation life, Slaves, Social conditions, Manners and customs, Juvenile literature, Christmas, History, Children's fiction, Virginia, fiction, Slavery, fiction, Christmas, fiction, African americans, fictionPlaces
Southern StatesTimes
1775-1865, 19th centuryShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Christmas In The Big House: Christmas in the Quarters
October 1, 2002, Scholastic Paperbacks
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in English
0590430289 9780590430289
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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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