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On Sunday, February 16, 2020, from 2:00- 4:00 pm, at White Rock Hills Branch Library 9150 Ferguson Road 75228, the artist VET will present a workshop on the Freedom Code Quilt. According to oral legend, African American slaves used codes, symbols, and secret message to to navigate the Underground Railroad to freedom. Quilt codes were said to be interpreted through patterns of secret codes

Giles R. Wright, a New Jersey-based historian, points to a lack of corroborating evidence. Quilt codes are not mentioned in the 19th century slave narratives or 1930s oral testimonies of former UGRR quilt block codes are an urban myth. Please use your favorite search engine and enter "Barbara Brackman quilt code FAQs" to get historical correct information. For example, The Double Wedding Ring, Sunbonnet Sue and most of the other quilt patterns supposedly used as code did not exist before the Civil War. Designed by Paintbrush Studio for Fabri-Quilt this cotton print fabric is perfect for quilting, apparel, and home decor accents. Colors include tan and orange on a black background. Freedom Quilts, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the mission of comforting mourning families. Throughout the past years, our efforts have been dedicated to those families who have lost a loved one in the 9/11 tragedy and to the families of our fallen soldiers. Jan 27, 2017 · Click on the book image to purchase your own copy of Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Clara is an 11-year-old slave girl who is separated from her mother. Author Deborah Hopkinson paints Clara' s story with emotion, history, and passion as Clara learns how to sew, becoming a seamstress for her master. Aug 16, 2018 · Quilts were used as codes because it was the only means of communication, said Daphne Simmons, a member of the Riley Center Quilters. “Nobody was going get in front of a group of people and say, ‘okay tonight you’re going to travel from this state to this state by going north,” Simmons said.

Freedom Quilt. When Jessie Telfair invoked the power of a single word repeated over and over in this quilt, she knew the word would reverberate through the history of the United States, back to the “peculiar institution” of slavery and the freedom that she was still struggling to attain in the 1960s at the beginning of the Civil Rights movement.

Giles R. Wright, a New Jersey-based historian, points to a lack of corroborating evidence. Quilt codes are not mentioned in the 19th century slave narratives or 1930s oral testimonies of former

The idea, clearly presented as fiction in Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, that slave quilts served as coded maps for escapees, entered the realm of claimed fact in the 1999 book Hidden in Plain Gather and make available a variety of picture books about quilts, the Underground railway and Freedom Quilts, for example, The Quilt Story, by Tony Johnston and Tomie dePaola; The Quilt, by Ann Jonas; Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad; by Jacqueline L. Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard; Mooshka: A Quilt Story, by Julie Paschkis; The Quilt of Belonging Freedom Quilt. When Jessie Telfair invoked the power of a single word repeated over and over in this quilt, she knew the word would reverberate through the history of the United States, back to the “peculiar institution” of slavery and the freedom that she was still struggling to attain in the 1960s at the beginning of the Civil Rights movement. When slave and seamstress Clara learns about the underground railroad, she dreams of freedom for her and her friends and family. Using scraps of cloth and infromation from other slaves, Clara stitches a map her master will never recognize. The quilt in the background is a genuine 1800's quilt with the Drunkard's Path pattern. It would have been displayed to warn 'Passengers' to take a wandering path to evade capture. An example of an1800's quilt with the Bear's Paws pattern.