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Book 2002
The runaway quilt
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- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Fugitive slaves
- Quilting
- Underground Railroad
- Female friendship
- Quiltmakers
- Fiction
- Pennsylvania, fiction
- Friendship, fiction
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.
