the whole thing is a fraud; there is zero evidence for a quilt code

Paul Finkelman
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The 2300 American Slave Narratives in the American Memory collection  
(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html) gathered by the  
Works Progress Administration between 1936 and 1938 would be a likely  
source to find a mention of something in regard to codes and quilts.
They are fascinating documents and can be searched by keyword,  but I  
obtained no results for the word quilt.
They are out of my specialty area but someone on the list may be  
familiar with the content.

Also, at least some are on-line in summary form at:  http:// 
xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/index.html


Mary Moyars-Johnson  (MMJ)




On Jan 23, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Sunshine49 wrote:

> That's the thing- so much needs to be checked, IMHO. Was the quilt  
> story widespread, or just in one particular area? Among a few slave  
> families and/ or related plantations?  A few counties? There  
> probably aren't too many old folks with the memories preserved,  
> left in the area where the s dealer
>
> -------
> I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
>
> --Daniel Boone
>
>
>
> On Jan 23, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Henry Wiencek wrote:
>
>> While I agree with Nancy's comment that we have to be careful about
>> dismissing things just because there's no documentation, the quilt  
>> story
>> seems to have been invented recently, out of whole cloth, so to  
>> speak.  Take
>> a look at the H-SLAVERY discussions for more details on this.  One  
>> historian
>> remarked that slaves didn't make quilts in the eighteenth-century, a
>> "blanket" assertion I'd like to check.
>>
>> Henry Wiencek
>> Charlottesville
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