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Mary Black's family quilts : memory and meaning in everyday life
- Title
- Mary Black's family quilts : memory and meaning in everyday life / Laurel Horton ; foreword by Michael Owen Jones.
- Author
- Horton, Laurel.
- Publication
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2005.
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- Description
- xxii, 184 p. : ill. (some col.), geneal. table, map; 28 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Family quilts
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-178) and index.
- Contents
- Who was Mary Black? -- "Arrived from Ireland and this day petitioned for land right": The first two generations of the Snoddy Family in South Carolina, 1773-1850s -- "I am doing the best I know how": Samuel and Rosa's family, 1850s-1860s -- "The spirit of kindness and generosity": Mary Snoddy's childhood and education, 1860s-1880s -- "Paid sweet to get sewing machine": Marriage and family in Wellford, 1890s -- "Let others live the rowdy life": The Black family in Spartanburg, 1890s-1916 -- "Her faith, her charity, and her talent for making friends": Mary's legacy to family and community, 1917-1996 -- "Let's share these quilts": The reemergence of Mary Black's quilts, 1990s.
- ISBN
- 1570036098 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781570036095 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1570036101 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781570036101 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005013004
- OCLC
- ocm60375704
- SCSB-1482328
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library