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Greenfield, Eloise

How They Got Over: African Americans and the Call of the Sea

104 pp. | HarperCollins/Amistad | January, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-06-028991-0 $$16.99 | Library ISBN 0-06-028992-9 $$17.89
(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist. The black Americans featured here turned to the sea as a means of finding a way to get on with life "in spite of pain, grief and enormous obstacles." After introducing seven men and women who made distinguished contributions to nautical history, the engaging text profiles six twentieth-century seafarers and concludes with brief sketches of groups of individuals. Pencil drawings illustrate this fine, unusual collective biography. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Betty Carter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2003

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