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Hardcover Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist Book

ISBN: 0385754620

ISBN13: 9780385754620

Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist

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An illuminating picture book biography of an artist and former slave whose patchwork quilts bring the stories of her family to life. Harriet Powers learned to sew and quilt as a young slave girl on a Georgia plantation. She lived through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and eventually owned a cotton farm with her family, all the while relying on her skills with the needle to clothe and feed her children. Later she began making pictorial quilts, using...

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