Hidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad - Rilegato

Tobin, Jacqueline L.; Dobard, Raymond G., Ph.D.

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ISBN 10: 0385491379 ISBN 13: 9780385491372

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 1999

Riassunto

The authors reveal the secret codes woven by African-American slaves into quilts they used to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad, part of a well-organized resistance movement that preceded the abolitionist crusade. 25,000 first printing.

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From the Forewords:

"Tobin and Dobard have taken quilt scholarship to another level. They have revealed that quilts are at once sources of pleasure, information, and meaning and are central to understanding the history of people of African ancestry in North America."
--Floyd Coleman, Ph.D.

"Jacqueline Tobin is to be applauded for being in the right place at the right time, and having enough faith to go back again and again to listen to the story of one family's effort to encode knowledge in their quilt tops. And one salutes her partnership with Raymond Dobard, whose knowledge of quilting technology is so outstanding. Their persistence--is vital to our understanding of African American culture and its myriad contributions to American life."
--Maude Southwell Wahlman, Ph.D., author of Signs and Symbols: African Images in African American Quilts

"By engaging in a vast amount of research, authors Tobin and Dobard have established a significant linkage between the Underground Railroad effort, escaping slaves, and the American patchwork quilt."
--Cuesta Benberry, author of Always There: The African American Presence in American Quilts

L'autore

Jacqueline Tobin is the author of The Tao Women, and is also a teacher, collector, and writer of women's stories. She lives in Denver, Colorado.

Raymond Dobard, Ph.D., is an art history professor at Howard University and a nationally known African American quilter. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0385491379
• ISBN 13: 9780385491372
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 208