Underground Railroad is actually a name of the secret route, which was taken by African slaves to escape from Americans prior to 1860. It was given this name because it was difficult to find out the slaves on this route due to the number of safe hiding places. Secret cods were used by all these people to reach from one safe place to another. According to a recent study, it ahs been found that an Underground Railroad Quilt Code was used to guide these escapees to freedom.

Actually, these escapes were illiterate, so they made use stitches, patterns, designs, colors and fabrics of the American quilt to exchange their intricate messages to one another. After stitching their messages, these coded quilts were sent to the slaves as secret maps.

There were several designs and patterns that were used for Underground Railroad Quilt. It included monkey wrench, bow ties, wagon wheel, flying geese, carpenter’s wheel, drunkard’s path, crossroads, bear's paw, crossroads, north star, log cabin, shoofly, had symbolic messages for others fugitives…read the rest of this article by visiting underground railroad quilt