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The premise of the "Quilt Code" is that various geometric patterns commonly found in American patchwork quilts were used to convey messages in connection with the Underground Railroad. ... Colors were very important to slave quilt makers. The color black indicated that someone might die. A blue color was believed to...
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www.ugrrquilt.hartcottagequilts.com/
www.ugrrquilt.hartcottagequilts.com/
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What we are certain of is that in the north women made quilts sewing inscriptions on them indicating the evils of slavery. Some even included a sketch of a slave in shackles. The following antislavery poem ... Homepage Quilting History Quilt Patterns News & Highlights Site Search ... Underground Railroad quilt block...
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www.womenfolk.com/quilting_history/abolitionist.htm
www.womenfolk.com/quilting_history/abolitionist.htm
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Foley 1 Young Readers at Risk: Quilt Patterns and the Underground Railroad Deborah Foley Associate Librarian, Huffington Library Culver Academies Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, written by Deborah Hopkinson in 1993, tells the story of a young slave girl that maps out the path to freedom with a quilt she is making.
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faculty.culver.org/~foleyd/Teacher_files/craftingfreedo...
faculty.culver.org/~foleyd/Teacher_files/craftingfreedom/diatribe110304.pdf
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Students will create the quilt based from the story "Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt" by Deborah Hopkinson as well as learn the historical background of quilting and its significance to the Underground Railroad and slavery. ... Assessment:; Quiz - 20 points rubric ; Observation of students ; Completed map quilt block(s) ;
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www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT012...
www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0120.html
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Included in this Really Good Stuff® kit you will find: • Full-color poster, 19" by 24", featuring the Underground; Railroad map and Quilt Patterns; ... Books, 2001). A young slave girl and her older brother, in the days before the Civil War, help slaves escape to freedom using the Underground Railroad quilt code.
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www.reallygoodstuff.com/pdfs/154227.pdf
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Official Home Page; Farrow - McDaniel - Strother - Wilson Family's & ; Underground Railroad Secret Quilt Code Site ... Did you know that quilts were used as maps and messages to assist in slave escapes on the Underground Railroad?
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www.plantationquilts.com/
www.plantationquilts.com/
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According to legend, it was named after a comment a slave owner made after his escaping slave swam a river and disappeared on the other side by way of an Underground Railroad. ... An Underground Railroad quilt, then, is one made of Underground Railroad blocks like the one above. Barb Garrett has created a pattern for...
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www.quilthistory.com/ugrrquilts.htm
www.quilthistory.com/ugrrquilts.htm
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The African American slave songs influenced spiritual songs, so it is not surprising that the name spirituals was given to these religious slave songs when, following the Civil War (1861-1865), they were first recognized as a discrete African American creation.
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www.africanaonline.com/slavery_spirituals.htm
www.africanaonline.com/slavery_spirituals.htm
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Women inscribed their needlecases with the phrase "May the work of our needles prick the conscience of the slaveholder ". Quilt patterns associated with the abolitionist cause include, Underground Railroad, Jacob's Ladder, North Star, and Slave Chain.
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www.quiltersbee.com/qbqhisto.htm
www.quiltersbee.com/qbqhisto.htm
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