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Hidden in plain view: a secret story of quilts and the underground railroad

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Abstract

Describes how African Americans made coded quilts and how they used them to escape on the underground railroad.

Contents

The Fabric of heritage: Africa and African American quiltmaking -- The Underground railroad -- "There are five square knots ..." -- "The Monkey wrench turns the wagon wheel ..." -- "Once they got to the crossroads ..." -- "Flying geese stay on the drunkard's path ..." -- Steal away -- African American quilts: style and traditions.

Publisher

  • Publication

    New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 2000, ©1999

Is about

  • Subject

  • 1800-1899

  • Period

    1800-1899

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Classification

  • ISBN

    • 0385497679
    • 9780385497671

Annotations / title notes

  • Notes

    • "New to the paperback edition is an afterword by Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond Dobard, revealing and explicating the second part of Ozella's Code, which instructed fugitives how to survive the journey to Canada, and freedom"--Cover.
    • "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday in 1999"--Title page verso.

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