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

Author: Jacqueline Tobin; Raymond G Dobard
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Tobin met Ozella Williams in the Old Market Building in Charleston, South Carolina, and learned of the oral tradition and coded quilts used to navigate escapes on the Underground Railroad.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Tobin, Jacqueline, 1950-
Hidden in plain view.
New York, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1999
(OCoLC)607086497
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jacqueline Tobin; Raymond G Dobard
ISBN: 0385491379 9780385491372
OCLC Number: 40398013
Description: x, 208 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 25 cm.
Contents: The transmission of secrets in African-American culture / Cuesta Benberry --
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 : styles and traditions --
Timeline --
Ozella's underground railroad quilt code patterns.
Responsibility: Jacqueline L. Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard.
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Abstract:

Tobin met Ozella Williams in the Old Market Building in Charleston, South Carolina, and learned of the oral tradition and coded quilts used to navigate escapes on the Underground Railroad.

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by mpersyn (WorldCat user on 2008-07-07)

There is considerable question as to whether this book is pure story or an accurate depiction of the use of quilts in the underground railroad. So far, there is no outside evidence backing up the story.

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