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InarticulateQuilter
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Harriet Powers (1837-1910) learned to sew while enslaved in Georgia. After the Civil War, she and her spouse owned a farm, but financial difficulties forced her to sell the quilt shown (for $5!) She is known to have made many quilts with religious and astronomical themes, though only two of her works have survived.

Representative work:
The Bible Quilt
Appliqué
88”x74”
1886

More info:
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_556462

Photo credit: Smithsonian

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Story quilt with 11 picture panels in 3 rows, including Adam and Eve in Eden, Eve and her son, Satan amidst the seven stars, Cain killing Abel, Cain goes into the land of Nod to get a wife, Jacob's dream, the baptism of Christ, the crucifixion, Judas Iscariot and the thirty pieces of silver, the Last Supper, and the Holy Family. The appliquéd figures are folk art style in muted shades of blue-grey, black, red, cheddar orange and tan on a beige background. Tan sashing and cheddar cornerstones connect each panel.
Story quilt with 11 picture panels in 3 rows, including Adam and Eve in Eden, Eve and her son, Satan amidst the seven stars, Cain killing Abel, Cain goes into the land of Nod to get a wife, Jacob's dream, the baptism of Christ, the crucifixion, Judas Iscariot and the thirty pieces of silver, the Last Supper, and the Holy Family. The appliquéd figures are folk art style in muted shades of blue-grey, black, red, cheddar orange and tan on a beige background. Tan sashing and cheddar cornerstones connect each panel.
Story quilt with 11 picture panels in 3 rows, including Adam and Eve in Eden, Eve and her son, Satan amidst the seven stars, Cain killing Abel, Cain goes into the land of Nod to get a wife, Jacob's dream, the baptism of Christ, the crucifixion, Judas Iscariot and the thirty pieces of silver, the Last Supper, and the Holy Family. The appliquéd figures are folk art style in muted shades of blue-grey, black, red, cheddar orange and tan on a beige background. Tan sashing and cheddar cornerstones connect each panel.
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1885 - 1886 Harriet Powers's Bible Quilt

Harriet Powers, an African American farm woman of Clarke County, Georgia, made this quilt in about 1886. She exhibited it at the Athens Cotton Fair of…
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