TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hopkinson,Deborah
TI  - Sweet Clara and the freedom quilt
SN  - 0679874720 (pbk.)
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - A. Knopf
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Quilts
KW  - Fiction
N2  - A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North. As a seamstress in the Big House, Clara dreams of a reunion with her momma, who lives on another plantation -- and even of running to freedom. Then she overhears two slaves talking about the Underground Railroad. In a flash of inspiratoin, Clara sees how she can use the cloth in her scrap bag to make a map of the land -- a freedom quilt -- that no master will ever suspect
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