Hannah and her father, slaves on a southern plantation, escape to Canada following

Author: Bettye Stroud
Illustrator: Erin Susanne Bennett
Format: Hardcover
Published: Candlewick Press, 2005

Hannah and her father, slaves on a southern plantation, escape to Canada following the secret map woven into the quilt Hannah's mother sewed before she died. Paint and collage illustrations accompany the fact-based story of the slaves' escape via the Underground Railroad, with help from the First African Baptist Church, a Quaker household, and a free black man.