The Patchwork Path, A Quilt Map to Freedom is an inspirational story of a little African-American girl and her father. The two are slaves on a Georgia plantation. Hannah's mother has died, and her sister has been taken and resold. One night Hannah and her father decide to run to freedom. The little girl carries the quilt her mother helped her make, that carries secrets of how to get to freedom. One square tells them to follow the bear prints, another tells them the church to find where there will be people who can help them, yet another tells them how to find Quakers that will hide them and bring them to Lake Eerie. Once across the lake, Hannah and her papa make it to Canada where they are free. The journey took months. Many times they were freezing, starving, and tired.
Hannah makes a new quilt just like the one her mama taught her to make, but she leaves one square blank in honor of her sister who she hopes and prays will find freedom also, and come back to them.
The Patchwork Path is a great story to incorporate into social studies. This fictional story includes an accurate historical account of the slaves journey to find freedom. It is based on the true story of African-American quilt makers who hid secrets in the patchwork. The students can have fun making their own quilt squares that can be pieced together to create a class room quilt.
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