Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist by Vanessa Brantley-Newton, Barbara Herkert

Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist

Vanessa Brantley-Newton, Barbara Herkert

40 pages 2015

2 editions

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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 c...

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