Building a New Land: African Americans in Colonial America

James Haskins is the author of more than one hundred books for both adults and children. He was honored with the Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Award for his body of work in nonfiction for young people Kathleen Benson is head of education at the Museum of the City of New York. She is the author or coauthor of many books for children James Ransome illustrated The Wagon, by Tony Johnston, a Smithsonian Notable Book; The Creation, by James Weldon Johnson, for which he won the Coretta Scott King Award for illustration; and Uncle JED'S Barbershop, by Margaree King Mitchell, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and an ALA Notable BookHaskins, Jim is the author of 'Building a New Land: African Americans in Colonial America', published 2000 under ISBN 9780060293611 and ISBN 0060293616.