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Subject:	Re: "Quilt code" debunked
From:	Henry Wiencek <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:48:45 -0500
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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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