In the time of the drums

By Kim L. Siegelson

Subjects: Igbo (African people), African american families, Slave insurrections, Juvenile fiction, Grandmothers, Fiction, Slave revolts, African Americans, Slavery, fiction, Children's fiction, Grandparents, fiction, African americans, fiction, New York Times reviewed

Description: 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.