Book 1999

In the time of the drums

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Publisher: Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for children
Language: English
Published: 1999

Slave insurrections -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Grandmothers -- Fiction.

Mentu, an American-born slave boy, watches his beloved grandmother, Twi, lead the insurrection at Teakettle Creek of Ibo people arriving from Africa on a slave ship.