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It helped lead them to the safe houses in the underground railroad. Different patterns meant different things.

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Why did slaves make freedom quilts?

Although the theory cannot be proved, it has been claimed that slaves made quilts to hang on clotheslines. Certain colors and symbols used in the quilts were said to signal to runaway slaves that a house was a safe haven for them.


What were some of the codes that runaway slaves used?

quilts, songs, candles in the window


Why did the black slaves in the underground railroad use quilts?

The quilts had pattens in them that showed the way to the North Star.


What is the quilts code?

A quilt Code is how slaves used as a secret message to go to the Undergroud Railroad and off to the Northern States.


What was the Underground used for?

For slaves to escape to freedom in canada


What was the code used by slaves from freedom from slavery?

yo lanada


What codes did slaves use?

Slaves used various forms of communication and codes to share information discreetly, such as using secret songs, stories, and spirituals to communicate messages about escape routes or plans. They also used signal systems like the North Star or quilts to indicate safe houses or paths to freedom along the Underground Railroad. Additionally, some slaves used coded language or gestures to pass along messages without their owners understanding.


How were political symbols used in the quilts?

tribes used quilts to display thier symbol


What was the Methods used to save slaves?

Abraham Lincoln The Underground railroad. Freedom


How were the slaves freedom denied?

The slaves' freedom was denied by the concept that slaves were property, not human beings, and all human beings are free, but not property, so slaves were denied freedom due to the concept that slaves were property, not people.


Why slaves do not want to be slaves?

They wanted to have freedom.


What was slaves perspective of freedom?

Freedom for slaves meant that the slaves didn't have to be owned and that they could be treated like everybody else.