Pieces of the Quilt

Pieces of the Quilt The Mosaic of an African American Family

Paperback (15 May 2009)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Author Anita Wills, spent over thirty years reconstructing her families lost history. This book is about those in her family who had extraordinary achievements, such as Elijah Johnson, one of the settlers of Liberia. The search is complicated by the multiracial lines that Ms. Wills had to work with. The task is to document the oral history passed down through so many generations. The result is an amazing family history of a people who were labeled, Indian, Mulatto, Colored, Negro, black, and now African American. They are a people who intermixed and married in the Great Valley Region of Pennsylvania. The stories are of culmination of the history of the Authors ancestors beginning in Colonial America. They are part of the Mosaic that is America!

Book information

ISBN: 9781439235850
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Imprint: Booksurge Publishing
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 381g
Height: 152mm
Width: 229mm
Spine width: 15mm