{"id":13120,"date":"2023-01-26T15:47:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T19:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/?p=13120"},"modified":"2023-02-04T15:39:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T19:39:12","slug":"sweet-clara-and-the-freedom-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/sweet-clara-and-the-freedom-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Deborah Hopkinson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An inspiring tale of creativity and determination on the Underground Railroad from Coretta Scott King Award winner James Ransome and acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clara, a slave and seamstress on a home plantation, dreams of freedom\u2014not just for herself, but for her family and friends. When she overhears a conversation about the Underground Railroad, she has a flash of inspiration. Using scraps of cloth from her work in the big house and scraps of information gathered from other slaves, she fashions a map that the master would never even recognize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Order online:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.ca\/books\/82714\/sweet-clara-and-the-freedom-quilt-by-deborah-hopkinson-illustrated-by-james-ransome\/9780679823117\">https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.ca\/books\/82714\/sweet-clara-and-the-freedom-quilt-by-deborah-hopkinson-illustrated-by-james-ransome\/9780679823117<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Sweet Clara and The Freedom Quilt\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m0xQM1I78Gk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From environmentalist and bestselling author Bill McKibben comes a hopeful, inspiring picture book celebrating the power of human cooperation and the beauty of life on Earth, beautifully illustrated by artist Stevie Lewis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-fullwidth.php","format":"image","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[83],"class_list":{"0":"post-13120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-image","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-children","8":"tag-black-history","9":"post_format-post-format-image"},"aioseo_notices":[],"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13591,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120\/revisions\/13591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}