Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters

Name: Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters
Author: Patricia McKissack, Fredrick McKissack

by Patricia McKissack, Fredrick McKissack · 1994

Cover of Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters

Popularity 4

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.

HistoryJuvenile literatureSocial life and customsSlavesChristmasPlantation lifeSocial conditionsSlaveryCoretta Scott King AwardManners and customsNew York Times reviewedChildren's fiction