The Runaway Quilt (Elm Creek Quilts Series #4)

The fourth book in the popular Elm Creek Quilts series explores a question that has long captured the imagination of quilters and historians alike: did stationmasters of the Underground Railroad use quilts to signal to fugitive slaves?

Alerted to the possibility that her family had ties to the slaveholding South, Sylvia Compson scours her attic and finds three quilts and a memoir written by Gerda, the spinster sister of clan patriarch Hans Bergstrom. The memoir describes the founding of Elm ...