Homer Glen-Lockport|Local Event
Pre-Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on the Underground Railroad with Connie Martin
Event Details
"Quilt Whisperer" Connie Martin, MA. provides an American historical information presentation from research on her family history to reveal secret codes in quilts as a 6th generation descendant of enslaved Africans in Kentucky.
Connie finds joy in sharing the stories told by her great grandmother Lizzie, which were passed down by Lizzie's enslaved mother who told stories of plantation escapes traveling through Kentucky, Missouri and into Illinois to freedom in Canada.
Learn the untold history of secret safe routes, and codes used on the Underground Railroad, including special stitching in the quilts; used throughout our counties - including use of Illinois rivers and streams that freedom seekers used to follow using abolitionist guides who risked their lives assisting them north to Canada.