User talk:Laesperanza

Hello Laesperanza:

The term "Quilt Code" as it was coined (not by the users), in the 1990's was know to and used by "Africans" who were enslaved in North America and African Americans. When slavery was abolished in Britain by Wilberforce's Abolition organizations efforts. He headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for twenty-six years until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807. After that it was illegal to import any new Africans to North America. Piracy and "breeding" people in America became prevalent.

This is when the symbolic languages then became known to, taught and used by African Americans who were slaves.It is a preexisting language still in used in Africa today. It was copyrighted in 1950 by Ozella McDaniels-Williams and again by my late mother Serena Strother Wilson and Teresa Kemp (me)in 1999.

The McDaniel Family Secret Underground Railroad Quilt Code.

Type of Work:	 Visual Material Registration Number / Date:	 VAu000480784 / 2000-01-09

The quilt patterns and their use in assisting freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad was allowed to be copyrighted upon the death of my great aunt Ozella McDaniel-Williams who held the first copyright. The use of the codes appeared 37 years before the 1987 date listed here.

Teresa Kemp www.plantationquilts.com (trkemp@plantationquilts.com)

Source of Copyright on the Quilt Code is the United States Copyright Office 101 Independence Ave. S.E. Washington, D.C. 20559-6000 Public Catalog - Copyright Catalog (1978 to present). Teresa Kemp (trkemp@plantationquilts.com) www.plantationquilts.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:0:A000:271:58C5:B85F:ACFB:FD0B (talk) 17:39, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

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