Underground Railroad

Ohio History

The Journey Ends

Our quilt journey continued from the plantation to the Underground Railroad. A green snaking path amid forest browns symbolized the winding and treacherous path to freedom. Markers commemorated the Underground Railroad stations in northeast Ohio, many of them in Cleveland where certain freedom was just across Lake Erie. Old photographs transferred onto fabric made a very interesting representation of these stations. Below, in another portion of the quilt, we see the runaway slaves hiding in the bare trees under the light of the moon, moving stealthily toward the north. It is difficult to even comprehend what these slaves went through for the right to live in freedom.