Pre-Civil War Era Quilts of Freedom

Pre-Civil War Era Quilts of Freedom

February 18, 2025
5:30 AM
Sycamore Public Library, Sycamore, United States

Event Description

Celebrate Black History month by joining Connie as she tells the stories passed down to her great-grandmother Lizzie of how her family survived the antebellum period through trials and tribulations, and how they used quilts that contained hidden codes and secret messages to assist abolitionists–white and black–to guide enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad to Canada.
During this presentation, Connie uses replica quilts you can touch to share eighteen different quilt code patterns, and refers to a book her mother, Dr. Clarice Boswell, wrote about their family called Lizzie’s Story: A Slave Family’s Journey to Freedom.
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