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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Edition
1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Runaway slave Liz Spocott, wounded during capture by notorious slave trader Patty Cannon, meets an ancient nameless woman in Cannon's prison attic who teaches her "the Code," a cryptic means of communication by which runaways reach freedom, and when she escapes once again, Liz uses the code, as well as visions of the future, to help her on her way north.
2) Remembrance
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Remembrance...It's a rumor, a whisper passed in the fields and veiled behind sheets of laundry. A hidden stop on the underground road to freedom, a safe haven protected by more than secrecy...if you can make it there. Ohio, present day. A refugee struggling to rebuild her life in America after the devastating Haitian earthquake is suddenly inexplicably bound to a mysterious old woman who is not at all what she seems. Haiti, 1791, on the brink of...
Author
Series
An Elm Creek quilts novel volume 4
Language
English
Description
When Sylvia Compson discovers evidence of her ancestors' involvement with the Underground Railroad, it raises the historical issue of the use of quilts as a method of signalling fugitive slaves.