Originally Posted by
diamondee
Sure some people are going to want to claim it was a myth... couldn't have the slaves outsmart anyone now could they? (sarcasm) How brave and courageous everyone involved had to be. I also love to read about the underground railroad quilts. Jennifer Chiaverini (elm creek quilt books) has some great stories, Eleanor Burns, Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad byJacqueline L. Tobin and several others. Some claim it was Pres. Lincolns passing that had people changing the block designs in the log cabin to a black center. Some say it was a story made up to sell quilts. I guess it is something we will never really know for sure. I for one find the stories very interesting. Dee
Except there are quilt historians, civil war historians and underground railroad historians that ALL say it's total fiction.