African American History:
African American Quilts
Discover the beauty of these treasures of American folk art.
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Under the Quilt of Night by Hopkinson, Deborah
Notes: A young girl flees from the farm where she has been worked as a slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom in the north.
Reading Level: Grades 3 to 6
ISBN: 0689822278
Publisher: Atheneum
Published: 2001
Callnumber: j
Stitchin' and Pullin' : a Gee's Bend Quilt by McKissack, Pat
Notes: As a young African American girl pieces her first quilt together, the history of her family, community, and the struggle for justice and freedom in Gee's Bend, Alabama unfolds.
Reading Level: PreK to Grade 2
ISBN: 9780375831638
Callnumber: j Fiction
Gee's Bend: the Architecture of the Quilt by
Notes: A companion book to the recent exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which features quilt masterpieces from the Alabama town of Gee’s Bend.
ISBN: 9780971910454
Callnumber: 746.4608 G271B
Show Way by Woodson, Jacqueline
Notes: The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
Reading Level: Grades 3 to 5
ISBN: 0399237496
Callnumber: j Fiction
Stitched From the Soul: Slave Quilts From the Antebellum South by Fry, Gladys-Marie
Notes: This lavishly illustrated volume offers a glimpse into the lives and creativity of African-American quilters prior to the Civil War.
ISBN: 0807849952
Callnumber: 746.97 F945S2
The Quilts of Gee's Bend by
Notes: The quilts made by the women of Gee's Bend, Alabama, are now recognized as masterpieces of American folk art.
ISBN: 0965376648
Callnumber: 746.4608 Q41o
Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom by Stroud, Bettye
Notes: 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.
Reading Level: Grades 1 to 4
ISBN: 0763624233
Callnumber: j Fiction
Addy's Wedding Quilt by Porter, Connie
Notes: Though her parents "jumped the broom" to get married when they were slaves, now that they are living free in Philadelphia after the Civil War they plan to have a church wedding and Addy works to complete a special quilt to give them as a wedding gift.
Reading Level: Grades 3 to 6
ISBN: 1584852747
Callnumber: j Fiction