Pre-Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on the Underground Railroad

Illinois Humanities Road Scholar Speaker, Connie Martin, shares family stories with hidden messages in the patterns of quilts used on the Underground Railroad. 

Join us for 60 minutes of historical information from research on family history, sharing secret codes as a 6th generation descendant of enslaved Africans in Kentucky. Who began the Underground Railroad? Learn the untold American history of secret safe routes throughout our counties in Illinois. Freedom seekers successfully escaped from slavery in the South; many using abolitionists who assisted them to Canada. 

This multimedia slide presentation will include an exhibition of family handmade quilt replicas.

Registration is encouraged.