Join Connie as she tells the stories passed down to her Great Grandmother Lizzie of how her family survived the Anti-bellum period through trials and tribulations, and how they used quilts that contain hidden codes and secret messages to assist abolitionists; white and black, to guide slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad to Canada.

During this presentation, Connie shares eighteen different quilt patterns in replica quilts and refer to a book her mother, Dr. Clarice Boswell, wrote about their family called Lizzie’s Story: A Slave Family’s Journey to Freedom.

Presentation in partnership with the Illinois Humanities Road Scholars Speakers Bureau.

For more information: https://elginhistory.org/event/pre-civil-war-quilts-secret-codes-to-freedom-on-the-underground-railroad-with-connie-martin-m-a/