Hidden in Plain View: A secret story of quilts and the underground railroad
by Jacqueline Tobin
(2000)
read: 13 December 2017
rating: [0]
category: non-fiction
I was expecting this to be a much different book. I was expecting to it have a lot of research and interesting historical stuff. Instead I got a lot of stories--which were in and of themselves pretty good--and a lot of anecdata which made me feel weird about the general thesis the authors had: that quilts and their patterns were an integral part of underground railroad communication. I remain unconvinced.
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