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In Book 4 of the Elm Creek Quilts series, Sylvia Compson discovers evidence of her ancestors' courageous involvement in the Underground Railroad.
Alerted to the possibility that her family had ties to the slaveholding South, Sylvia scours her attic and finds three quilts and a memoir written by Gerda, the spinster sister of clan patriarch Hans Bergstrom. The memoir describes the founding of Elm Creek Manor and how, using quilts as markers, Hans, his wife, Anneke, and Gerda came to beckon fugitive slaves to safety within its walls. When a runaway named Joanna arrives from a South Carolina plantation pregnant with her master's child, the Bergstroms shelter her through a long, dangerous winter -- imagining neither the impact of her presence nor the betrayal that awaits them.
The memoir raises new questions for every one it answers, leading Sylvia ever deeper into the tangle of the Bergstrom legacy. Aided by the Elm Creek Quilters, as well as by descendants of others named in Gerda's tale, Sylvia dares to face the demons of her family's past and at the same time reaffirm her own moral center.
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Female friendship, Fiction, Quilting, Quiltmakers, Sylvia Compson (Fictitious character), Underground railroad, Fugitive slaves, Underground Railroad, Large type books, Elm creek quilters (fictitious characters), fiction, Pennsylvania, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Fiction, historical, generalPeople
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The Runaway Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel
March 25, 2003, Plume
in English
0452283981 9780452283985
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The runaway quilt: an Elm Creek quilts novel
2002, Thorndike Press
in English
0786244720 9780786244720
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The runaway quilt: an Elm Creek quilts novel
2002, Simon & Schuster
in English
0743222261 9780743222266
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