Rules:
*A theme will be posted each week on Thursday
*Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading that features the theme
*Post it and don't forget to mention the author and title of the book
*Event is open for the whole week
*Link back to Reading Between the Pages
This week's theme is shapes.
More than one account mentions her skill as a quilter. One says that when the refugees were hiding in the woods by day, "she pulled out her patchwork, and sewed together little bits, perhaps not more than an inch square, which were afterwards made into comforters for the fugitives in Canada." (There is no evidence, however, that quilts hanging on clotheslines guided Tubman or any other runaway on a journey to freedom.)
I chose this quote because I'm always fascinated when I accept a given story or explanation as fact only to learn, many years later, that perhaps it's not all so clear cut.... I'm intrigued by the notion that quilts were never used as a form of communicating to fugitive slaves -- especially considering how often I've seen it presented as a fact.
Great snippet! And I love how you used mine to tell me about yours. :-)
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