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The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom
The Patchwork Path A Quilt Map to Freedom Author:Bettye Stroud, Erin Susanne Bennett (Illustrator) The Patchwork Path is based on a story given to Jacqueline Tobin by African-American quilter Ozella McDaniel Williams at the historic Charleston, SC, marketplace in 1994. The story, about how slaves used quilts to communicate on the Underground Railroad, had been passed down orally from grandmother to mother to daughter. The story was held secre... more »t in Ozella's family until she insisted that Jacqueline "write this down."« less