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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     May, Rachel (Rachel Suzanne), author.     Subjects     Slavery -- United States -- History.     African Americans -- History.     Quilting -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      May, Rachel (Rachel Suzanne), author.       by title:      An American quilt : ...         MARC Display

An American quilt : unfolding a story of family and slavery / Rachel May. by May, Rachel (Rachel Suzanne), author. New York : Pegasus Books, 2018. Subjects Slavery -- United States -- History.   African Americans -- History.   Quilting -- History. ISBN:  9781681774176 (hardback) : 1681774178 (hardback) Description:  ix, 452 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, genealogical table ; 24 cm Edition:  First Pegasus books cloth edition. 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. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hana P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 306.36209 Ma Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 306.36209 Ma Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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