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BGSU Firelands ElderCollege Kickoff Features Quilts and Codes of the Underground Railroad
August 30, 2016 | Leave a Comment
The kickoff of the ElderCollege fall semester is set for Wednesday, Sept. 7, from 1:30-3 p.m., in the Cedar Point Center at Bowling Green State University Firelands College. Were quilts really used as signal codes for runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad? Do some African American ‘spirituals’ really have double meanings and did they send […]