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Format:
Book (large print)
Title:
The lost quilter
ISBN:
9781410414021

9781594133572
Edition:
Large print ed.
Publication Information:
Detroit : Thorndike Press, ©2009.
Physical Description:
503 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Summary:
In 1859, a runaway slave and quilter named Joanna traveled the Underground Railroad to Elm Creek Farm -- only to be captured and forcibly returned to Virginia. More than a century later, Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom Compson recovers a bundle of letters that Joanna wrote from South Carolina. Reading transports Sylvia into the thick of the Civil War and to Edisto Island in the years afterward, where a group of ex-slaves formed a quilting circle.
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