On April 26, the Holy Trinity Quilting Queens will host a talk on “Pre-Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on the ...

Her quilts are made with patterns that resemble codes slaves would use to navigate the Underground Railroad during the 1800s. The different codes helped lead them to freedom, especially in ...

Courtesy Sanford Biggers According to African American oral tradition, people escaping slavery via the underground railroad relied on a code sewn into quilts, which were hung in windows or over ...

The Underground Railroad was an important movement that took place during the 19th century, when the enslaved who sought ...

finds a quilt secretly coded with a map of the Underground Railroad, leading her to freedom. Ozella McDaniel Williams authored "Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground ...