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105 pp.
| Linnet |
September, 1999 |
TradeISBN 0-208-02420-4$$21.00
(2)
4-6
Photographs by
Jennifer Ashabranner.
Ashabranner adds to his series of acclaimed books about immigration with this look at a perhaps less publicized and numerically small group, contemporary immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Following a concise summary of both the slave trade and larger immigration patterns throughout U.S. history, Ashabranner interviews subjects whose stories give faces and life to the statistics. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 1999