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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Tobin, Jacqueline, 1950- Hidden in plain view. New York, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1999 (OCoLC)607086497 |
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| 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. |
| More information: |
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.
Notes:
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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