Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad

Contributor(s): Tobin, Jacqueline (Author), Dobard, Raymond G (Author), Benberry, Cuesta (Foreword by), Coleman, Floyd (Foreword by), Wahlman, Maude Southwell (Foreword by)

ISBN: 9780385497671

Publisher: Vintage

Binding Types:

Paperback

$19.00

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$31.95 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$30.75 (100+ copies: $30.00)

List/retail price:

$19.00

Pub Date: January 18, 2000

Dewey: 973.7115

LCCN: 98049804

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.65" H x 8.00" L x 5.24" W ( 0.60 lbs) 240 pages

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Description: For the first time, the secret codes used in slave quilt patterns that served as maps to escape on the Underground Railroad are revealed--suggesting that there was an organized African-American resistance movement that predated the Abolitionist crusade. Two 8-page color photos inserts. Line drawings.

Review Quotes: "Hidden in Plain View is mesmerizing." --The New York Times Book Review

"A captivating read." --Dayton Daily News

"Unfolds like a scholarly detective story and offers convincing evidence that quilts were used 'to conceal and yet reveal' a means of escape on the Underground Railroad." --Orange County Register

"A groundbreaking work." --Emerge

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