Hearts & Hands

Overview

The film chronicles the lives of ordinary women as well as individuals such as Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Keckley, Frances Willard, and Abigail Scott Duniway through the great 19th century events: industrialization, abolition, the Civil War, westward movement, temperance, and suffrage. For nineteenth century women, quilts were the podium, the pulpit and the judges' gavel, which their society denied them. Their quilts speak the language of abolition, patriotism, politics, social justice, and westward expansion.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 30, 1988

Original language

English

Director

Pat Ferrero

Writer

Beth Ferris

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0770461