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Did Quilts Hold Codes to the Underground Railroad?

Source: National Geographic

Two historians claim quilts may have contained encoded messages for enslaved people looking to escape through the Underground Railroad. Though others disagree, it is an intriguing idea.

This entry was posted in A New Birth of Freedom and tagged Culture & Society, History, Opinion, People on September 1, 2019 by Daniella Navarro.

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