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Piecemakers guild recreates history of Underground Railroad quilts
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As slaves tried to escape from their masters in the South during the early 1800s, they discovered a unique way to communicate in code along the Underground Railroad to freedom, according to Beverly Harris of Marshall's Piecemakers Quilting Guild.
Three of her fellow members in the guild, Ida Cary, Donna Wallace and Ariela LeGendre, took it upon themselves in the winter of 2001-2002 to recreate eleven different quilt patterns that were used as encoded guidance for escaped slaves as they made their way into free land with the help of anti-slavery sympathizers. --2/12
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