Did Fugitive Black Slaves Use Secret Codes in Quilts on the Underground Railroad?

In 1999, a book came out titled “Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad,”written by Jaqueline Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard. The authors claimed their work offered the first proof regarding how fugitive Black slaves shared coded messages through different quilted patterns as […]

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