An American quilt unfolding a story of family and slavery
"Following the trail left by an unfinished quilt, this illuminating saga examines slavery from the cotton fields of the South to the textile mills of New England--and the humanity behind it. When we think of slavery, most of us think of the American South. We think of back-breaking fieldwork on plan...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First Pegasus books cloth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Piecing the quilt
- Eliza, Minerva, & Juba
- Warp & weft : agriculture & industry
- Mosaic
- Medicine & its failures
- Hickory root
- The Leonids : a sermon in patchwork
- Even there
- Canuto Matanew
- An abomination
- Living history
- Portraits.
