Originally Posted by Painiacs
The underground railroad used quilts to show the way to next safe house. Elm creek quilting series did a book on it.
oooh...and that was later proven to be wrong... here is a good article on it
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...avequilts.html
and here is a list of the book about it
http://www.womenfolk.com/historyofquilts/myth2.htm
Eleanor Burns wrote the Underground railroad quilt book, then came Barbara Brackman's facts and fabrications of the underground railroad.
As for the Elm creek books, I own everyone and have read them, and do PR for Jennifer and there has only been a fictional mention of the UGRR in the runaway quilt.