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An American quilt : unfolding a story of family and slavery

Title
An American quilt : unfolding a story of family and slavery / Rachel May.
Author
May, Rachel (Rachel Suzanne)
Publication
  • New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Description
ix, 452 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, genealogical table; 24 cm
Summary
Following the trail left by an unfinished quilt, May examines slavery from the cotton fields of the South to the textile mills of New England-- and the humanity behind it. In piecing together the story of Minerva, Eliza, Jane, and Juba-- the enslaved women behind a quilt made of 1830s-era fabric-- and their owner, Susan Crouch, May reveals the lives of these urban enslaved women and their world. -- adapted from jacket.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Creative nonfiction.
  • Nonfiction.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-444).
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.
Call Number
Sc E 18-782
ISBN
  • 9781681774176
  • 1681774178
LCCN
99976571827
OCLC
1009013394
Author
May, Rachel (Rachel Suzanne), author.
Title
An American quilt : unfolding a story of family and slavery / Rachel May.
Publisher
New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Edition
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-444).
Other Standard Identifier
99976571827
Research Call Number
Sc E 18-782
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