Africville
Grant, Shauntay; Illustrated by Eva Campbell
For over 150 years, from the late 1700s to the 1960s, Africville, an endnote with photographs explains, was a Black community in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Book details
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Published
- February 1, 2006
- Pages
- 120
- ISBN-13
- 9781550026306
- Language
- English
Reading lists that include this book
- 2019Picture Books for School-Age Children
Sources
- CCBC Choices 2019Source for: Description
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