Harriet Powers, 1837-1910, was an enslaved African American woman of Clarke County, Georgia. She made fascinating quilts of her own design, like 'The Bible Quilt ' (above). The subjects depicted on the quilt are Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, a continuance of Paradise with Eve and a son, Satan amidst the seven stars, Cain killing his brother 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. Her quilts are considered among the finest examples of nineteenth-century Southern quilting.
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