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The runaway quilt : an Elm Creek quilts novel / Jennifer Chiaverini.

Title
The runaway quilt : an Elm Creek quilts novel / Jennifer Chiaverini.
Author
Chiaverini, Jennifer
Publication
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2002.

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TextRequest in advance PS3553.H473 R86 2002Off-site

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Description
329 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
When Sylvia Compson discovers evidence of her ancestors' involvement with the Underground Railroad, it raises the historical issue of the use of quilts as a method of signalling fugitive slaves.
Subject
  • Underground Railroad > Fiction
  • Female friendship > Fiction
  • Quiltmakers > Fiction
  • Quilting > Fiction
  • Fugitive slaves > Fiction
  • Compson, Sylvia (Fictitious character) > Fiction
  • Domestic fiction
Genre/Form
  • Domestic fiction
  • Domestic fiction.
  • Fiction
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0743222261
LCCN
^^2001057567
OCLC
  • 48466827
  • SCSB-10971815
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library