Learn about the Underground Railroad’s secret codes with Holy Trinity Quilters
On April 26, the Holy Trinity Quilting Queens will host a talk on “Pre-Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on the Underground Railroad.”
Connie Martin, an Illinois Humanities Road Scholar Speaker, will share her family stories with hidden messages in the patterns of quilts used on the Underground Railroad.
She will present historical information on her family’s history, sharing secret codes as a sixth generation descendant of enslaved Africans in Kentucky.
Learn the untold American history of secret safe routes throughout our counties in Illinois. Freedom seekers successfully escaped from slavery in the South; many using abolitionists who assisted them to Canada.
The program will be 2 to 4 p.m. at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 357 Division St. in Elgin. All are welcome.
This will be a 60-minute multimedia slide presentation with an exhibition of family handmade quilt replicas. A question-and-answer session will follow.
Freewill offerings will be accepted to help buy supplies used in the making of the quilts donated to Lutheran World Relief. These quilts are a tangible way to express love to neighbors in need. Quilts can be used as warm bedding, simple tents or floor coverings. Each one reflects God’s loving presence in a world rife with suffering.
Learn more about the Holy Trinity Quilting Queens at holytrinityelgin.com/giving.