TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oso,Maisha
AU  - Bradley,Candice
TI  - Before the ships: the birth of Black excellence 
SN  - 9781338849974
AV  - PS3615.S57 B44 2024
U1  - 811 OSO 23/eng/20230919
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.
KW  - Children's poetry, American
KW  - Africans
KW  - Juvenile poetry
KW  - Self-esteem
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Slave trade
KW  - American poetry
KW  - Africa
KW  - History
KW  - lcgft
N1  - K-3
N2  - Takes readers back in time to before the advent of the Transatlantic slave trade. We see the grandness of African royalty, the bravery of warriors like the Queen of Kush, and stories being told in song with griots and drums
ER  -