There is a book called "Hiding in Plain Sight" which explains why some people believe that quilts may have been used some of the time in some places. As far as I know there is no factual proof that they were used, and none that they weren't. The people who would know are all gone. I doubt the people who wrote the history at that time would never have even considered that uneducated slaves could outwit white slaveholders and probably never asked. Also in the Jim Crow South it might not have been healthy to admit it.
Bottom Line. We don't know for sure and you cant prove a negative.
And finally Wikapedia is a fun source and many of its articles are accurate but anyone can post anything
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