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The patchwork path : a quilt map to freedom / Bettye Stroud ; illustrated by Erin Susanne Bennett.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.S92473 Pat 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stroud, Bettye, 1938-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fugitive slaves--Juvenile fiction.
- Fugitive slaves.
- Quilts--Juvenile fiction.
- Quilts.
- Underground Railroad--Juvenile fiction.
- Underground Railroad.
- Slavery--Juvenile fiction.
- Slavery.
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Fugitive slaves--Fiction.
- Quilts--Fiction.
- Underground Railroad--Fiction.
- Slavery--Fiction.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Ten-year-old girls--United States--Fiction.
- African American girls--Southern States--Fiction.
- Girl slaves--United States--Fiction.
- Enslaved persons--United States--Fiction.
- African American families--Fiction.
- African-American quilts--Fiction.
- Quilting--Patterns--Fiction.
- Courage in African-American girls--Fiction.
- Hope--Fiction.
- Maps--Fiction.
- Escapes--Fiction.
- Freedom--Fiction.
- Slavery--United States.
- Genre:
- Picture books.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Picture books collection.
- Stories collection.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
- Edition:
- [1st ed.]
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, [2005].
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Firist edition 2005"
- "This book was typeset in Plantin."
- "The illustrations were done in oil."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy is "Reinforced Trade Edition".
- ISBN:
- 0763624233
- 9780763624231
- 9781415577776
- 1415577773
- 9780763635190
- 0763635197
- OCLC:
- 54929837
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