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The Underground Railroad Quilt Code: The Experience of Belief

2007
Horton, Laurel
United States
From Uncoverings 2007, Volume 28 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group
Laurel Horton is an independent folklorist and quilt researcher. A native of Kentucky, she holds a BA in English and an MS in Library Science from the University of Kentucky, an MA in Folklore from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Her 1979 thesis "Economic Influences on German and Scotch-Irish Quilts in Antebellum Rowan County, North Carolina," was one of the earliest studies of regional variations in American quiltmaking traditions. She authored the award-winning book, Mary Black's Family Quilts: Memory and Meaning in Everyday Life, and has served as editor of Uncoverings.

​When AQSG added Uncoverings articles to the Quilt Index, they omitted all the illustrations, for lack of permissions. Although the articles found in the QI (1980-2010, 2012-2016) lack illustrations, they link to quilts, essays, special collections, and documentation projects across the Quilt Index, introducing them to a wider audience. The permission issues have since been resolved and in 2024, AQSG completed adding all the Uncoverings volumes from 1980-2023 to the Digital Commons@University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They are completely searchable and include all the illustrations. You can find, Uncoverings 2007, Volume 28, at this link, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/aqsg-uncoverings/33/.

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