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 To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html