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Freedom Quilts: Piecing Escape on the Underground Railroad

“Quilts are active agents in history and vivid storytellers.” (Click the text above to learn about Macia Fuller and her Underground Railroad quilts.) Women with needles. Creating maps and codes. Freeing countless precious souls from slavery. Photo courtesy of: Time http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1606271,00.html One group of stitchers was the Quakers who ran the safe houses, or stations […]