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Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers Study Guide

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by Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick L. McKissack
About 14 pages (4,213 words)

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The McKissacks employ a plain writing style. This method works effectively for relaying the complex detail necessary to provide readers with the history of whaling and whalers.

They describe the history in chronological order, depicting the political changes of the period and the desperate measures.....

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Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

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