Untraditional African-American column quilt from the artist’s Urban Kente period. The red, white and blue quilt honors an enslaved man, Edmund G. Carlisle, who taught himself to read and write and who was brutally punished for it. Blocks in the quilt include blue processed photos, hand dyed fabrics, symbols and text. Many of the photos are of 1850 daguerreotypes of enslaved people from a South Carolina plantation and the text includes stories from formerly enslaved people recounting their lives