The Underground Railroad Secret Quilt Code Museum
(Formerly Located in Underground Atlanta)
Join us in Charleston, SC
at the Charleston City Market at the Artist Market May 20-22th, 2010!
(Where our family has sold over 80 years)
We are working to open the UGRR Secret Quilt Code Exhibit in Atlanta, GA June 1st - August 31st, 2010 Check back for updates!
Welcome !
Bienvenido, Bienvenue, Willkommen, καλώς όρισες , स्वागत, ברוך הבא
,Benvenuto, bun venit, Добро пожаловать, مرحبا
Now scheduling for Spring 2010-June 2015 Exhibits! To contact us to schedule an exhibition
Click on the Traveling Exhibit Tab to your left to review cost and plan your exhibition.
West Virginia State University purchased Booker T. Washingtons boyhood home and church properties in Malden West Virginia near Charleston and we have a small UGRR Quilt Code exhibit there. 
For more information contact Phone: 1-800-987-2112 or
We love Festivals! Here are some photos from the Latino Festival. 
Participants wrote about slavery in their countries across the globe in our journals they signed.
The Irish Festival 
Many guest did not know about Irish people were also slaves here in the Americas and in Europe also in 1800's.
Not indentured only many more were auctioned, families separated, slaves for life and often worked to death!
Many guest signed our guest book and visited our exhibits world wide slavery.
Though I do not agree with everything on these links they do have some good information and the main point is to get you to discover others view point and research other cultures also.
http://www.revisionisthistory.org/forgottenslaves.html
An excert from http://www.raceandhistory.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/1638
"The Proclamation of 1625 ordered that Irish political prisoners be transported overseas and sold as laborers to English planters, who were settling the islands of the West Indies, officially establishing a policy that was to continue for two centuries. In 1629 a large group of Irish men and women were sent to Guiana, and by 1632, Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat in the West Indies. By 1637 a census showed that 69% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves, which records show was a cause of concern to the English planters. But there were not enough political prisoners to supply the demand, so every petty infraction carried a sentence of transporting, and slaver gangs combed the country sides to kidnap enough people to fill out their quotas.:
Although African Negroes were better suited to work in the semi-tropical climates of the Caribbean, they had to be purchased, while the Irish were free for the catching, so to speak. It is not surprising that Ireland became the biggest source of livestock for the English slave trade.
The group pictured below is doing a gallery craft activity.
Since we closed the Underground Atlanta locationFall 2007,
I added this gallery page so you could see our love and passion.
We offered Quilting & Folk Art Classes
Below are photos from Dr. Maddy's tie dye workshop and some of the students with their work!
Patrons experienced a life chaning event!
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