[This book] explains ... how enslaved men and women encoded messages within quilt patterns that helped fugitives navigate their escape along the Underground Railroad.-Back cover.
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Reveals the secret codes woven by African American slaves into quilts providing directions to those traveling north on the Underground Railroad.
Describes how African Americans made coded quilts and how they used them to escape on the underground railroad.
Tobin met Ozella Williams in the Old Market Building in Charleston, South Carolina, and learned of the oral tradition and coded quilts used to navigate escapes on the Underground Railroad. In Hidden in Plain View, historian Jacqueline Tobin and scholar Raymond Dobard offer the f…