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Hidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts at the Underground Railroad (Hardcover)

by Jacqueine Tobin (Author), Raymond Dobard (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group; 1 edition (1 Mar 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0385491379
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385491372
  • Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,088,594 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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From the Forewords:
"Tobin and Dobard have taken quilt scholarship to another level. They have revealed that quilts are at once sources of pleasure, information, and meaning and are central to understanding the history of people of African ancestry in North America."
--Floyd Coleman, Ph.D.
"Jacqueline Tobin is to be applauded for being in the right place at the right time, and having enough faith to go back again and again to listen to the story of one family's effort to encode knowledge in their quilt tops. And one salutes her partnership with Raymond Dobard, whose knowledge of quilting technology is so outstanding. Their persistence--is vital to our understanding of African American culture and its myriad contributions to American life."
--Maude Southwell Wahlman, Ph.D., author of Signs and Symbols: African Images in African American Quilts
"By engaging in a vast amount of research, authors Tobin and Dobard have established a significant linkage between the Underground Railroad effort, escaping slaves, and the American patchwork quilt."
--Cuesta Benberry, author of Always There: The African American Presence in American Quilts


Synopsis

Reveals the secret codes woven by African American slaves into quilts they used to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad.

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent oral history, 3 Jun 1999
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Really good account of an oral history story. True, there aren't many concrete facts in this book, but not many concrete facts exist about women's day-to-day history, day-to-day African American slave history, and slave involvement in the Freedom Train. This book presents what has traditionally been an oral history story and "passes it on" to a wider audience. I thank the authors and Ozella McDaniel for letting me share in their community.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Let's get the facts straight, 4 Feb 1999
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If you're interested in how human beings survive and thrive under adverse circumstances and are specifically interested in the reliance and resourcefulness of the bearers of African culture, you'll enjoy this book. I feel someone should respond to the profoundly inaccurate characterzations of this book by "danael@earthlink.net from California" and to a lesser degree "A reader from Oregon." Contrary to claims by Danael, NOWHERE in the book do the authors "attempt to usurp the origin of quilting patterns and assign them to another group." In fact, early on they state very clearly that the tradition of quilting they describe is "a cultural hybrid, mixing African encoding traditions with American quilt patterning conventions..." Another blatant inaccuracy is the statement that no original African-American quilts appear in the book. This is simply not true. The book contains color reproductions of African, traditional African-American, and contemporary African-American quilts, including a quilt belonging to Frederick Douglass. As for the Oregon reader's statement that "title is a misnomer as to total content" this is also not factual. The book's title "Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Undeground Railroad" is a very precise and complete description of the book's contents. Another statment by the same reviewer is so inaccurate as to be bizarre: "The amount of information contained about quilts and patterns and their meanings could be explained in a 1-2 page article." The origins and possible meanings of over ten patterns are discussed, each pattern requiring several pages worth of exposition. I hope that no one is discouraged from reading this remarkable book by reviews that fail the test of basic accuracy. This book is worthy of attention and study.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely an outstanding book., 4 Mar 1999
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I have always been a student of history and considered myself fairly well informed. I am also a musician and thought I knew something about spirituals. This book destroyed both beliefs. I will never view a quilt or hear a spiritual again without new found knowledge.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very, good! Pleased to read more on this subject.
I have read of hints of this in other books and was pleased to read a book on the subject. I'm sure there will be those that do not think there is enough proof of the story, but... Read more
Published on 15 May 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Tobin has crossed the bridge between the races.
Why is Amazon including Benberry as an author of this book? There is a grammatical error at the top of your review... Read more
Published on 29 Mar 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Story But Needs More
The authors have a good command of "art speak" and that allows them to present their evidence in a very readable and convicing manner. Read more
Published on 21 Mar 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars A MUST for every quilt history and black history library.
Powerful. Riveting. Compelling. A Wake-Up Call to All Researchers and Historians Everywhere. --Wilene Smith, quilt historian
Published on 24 Jan 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating, inspiring book
Dr. Dobard and Ms. Tobin tell a fascinating story, which I know they've been researching a long time. Read more
Published on 30 Dec 1998

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