Stitched from the Soul: Slave Quilts from the Antebellum South
Gladys-Marie Fry
Quilt History & BiographyThe foundational scholarly account of quiltmaking among enslaved people in the antebellum South, drawing on oral histories, plantation records, and surviving textiles to document a history largely absent from earlier general quilt-history books. A serious academic text rather than a picture book — essential context to read alongside the Gee's Bend titles elsewhere in this category.
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