Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist Quest o Blueberry Grunt

o Blueberry Grunt

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Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len are two cunning robbers with a cunning plan to steal the farmer's fine prize cow

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These poignant firsthand accounts reflect the unique and varied voices of the writers

Sewing Stories: Harriet Powers' Journey from Slave to Artist Quest o Blueberry GruntAn illuminating picture book biography of an artist and former slave whose patchwork quilts bring the stories of her family to life. 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 clothe and feed her children. Later she began making pictorial quilts, using