Facts & Fabrications: Unraveling the History of Quilts & Slavery: 8 Projects 20 Blocks First-Person Accounts

Barbara Brackman presents current research on quilts during slavery, emancipation, and the Underground Railroad. The book explores whether quilts played a role in leading people to freedom and what that role may have been. Nine quilt projects combine historic blocks with Brackman's own designs. First-person accounts, newspaper records, military documents, and surviving quilts provide historical evidence. Readers are invited to interpret the stories and distinguish between fact and fabrication. The book includes accounts from slaves, escaped slaves, freed slaves, plantation owners, and abolitionists—many with connections to slavery. It features curriculum materials suitable for elementary through high school learners. The projects and historical narratives serve as starting points for further research.