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Quaker Women from Clinton County, Ohio, and Wayne County, Indiana who were members of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Anti-Slavery Friends created this quilt to strengthen their abolitionist bonds. Rebecca Harvey Hadley of Clinton County and her daughters signed this quilt and were related to many of the Indiana signers.

Hadley Abolitionist Quilt (ca. 1842)

Diagram of a slave ship from the Atlantic slave trade.

The 1842 seal of Captain Paul Cuffe, showing his brig Traveler in which he provided passage for freed slaves to Sierra Leone (photo courtesy New Bedford Whaling Museum).