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About the book >.>.> A Communion of the Spirits represents the first national survey of African-American quiltmak ers. It is also a personal record of how Roland L. Freeman’s life has intertwined with the world of quiltmaking for almost sixty years- “as an African-American male; as a child who was deeply influenced by the cultural tradi- tions and magical powers of quilts; and for more than three decades as a photographer and folklorist.” Organized chronologically the book begins with Freeman’s childhood years in the 1940s. “Quilts were special even magical to me” he says. “They could heal and they could curse they could capture history and affect the future; they could transform pain to celebra- tion.” In the mid-1970s as director of the Mis- sissippi Folklife Project Freeman began documenting traditional crafts and practition- ers. His commitment to documenting African- American quilters continued for twenty years and covered thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia. This book is primarily a look at the quilters Freeman met their quilts and their lives. The communion says Freeman “refers to the power of quilts to create a virtual web of connec tions-individual generational professional physical spiritual cultural and historical.” Included are the fascinating stories of a remarkable range of individuals old and young women and men (MP)