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Subject:	"Quilt code" debunked
From:	Henry Wiencek <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:15:55 -0500
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Today's NY Times carries an article debunking the widely-circulated story
that slaves made coded quilts to guide runaways to freedom.  There's a lot
more on this in the recent dicussion logs of H-SLAVERY.  

Henry Wiencek

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