While I was at the Loudon Museum, we had an evening lecture on the topics of
slave quilts. I had heard  Jacqueline L. Tobin speak about her book, Hidden
in Plain View : A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad and
invited two local experts to speak on the topic. While this is still
disputed by some in the historical community it was lively evening with good
attendance and great discussion. We have a large quilting community in
Loudon so it was especially well received with them. We did not present it
as the gospels truth but rather a possibility. The two local experts played
off each other and one offered more of a skeptics view than the other.
Please let me know if you'd like any other information. 

Jamilyn Cole
former Director of Education and Public Programs at the Loudon Museum

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-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Re: Codes in slave quilts


Deb-
You may want to contact the International Spy Museum
regarding the quilts. I believe we did a story on it
when I worked there.Contact info:  202.654.0930 or
[log in to unmask]

Lisa Holley



--- Deb Fuller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I just found a blurb on codes in slave quilts on the
> NSA museum site
> here: http://www.nsa.gov/publications/publi00011.cfm
> 
> I thought we had a discussion on here a while back
> about how most of
> that info was disproven but I can't find it in the
> archives.
> 
> Does anyone have info about if codes were used in
> slave quilts or not?
> 
> Just curious!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> deb
> 
>
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