The patchwork path : a quilt map to freedom /

Stroud, Bettye, 1938-

The patchwork path : a quilt map to freedom / Bettye Stroud ; illustrated by Erin Susanne Bennett. - 1st ed. - Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2005. - 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.

While her father leads her toward Canada and away from the plantation where they have been slaves, a young girl thinks of the quilt her mother used to teach her a code that will help guide them to freedom.

0763624233 (alk. paper) 9780763635190 (paperback)

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Fugitive slaves--Fiction.
Quilts--Fiction.
Underground Railroad--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.

PZ7.S92473 / Pat 2005

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