Each member of the family in [her] own cell of consciousness, each making [her] own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there.

~Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

An Invitation:

Welcome to this patchwork quilt that weaves together the Afro-Indigenous narratives of the Freedwomen. This is an invitation to reflect on these Freedwomen's lives. Each story is in the orginal form of the interview and reflects the archival document, including mispelled words. Additionally, with each story is the Freedwoman's age or estimated age, location, tribal nation, map, and  archival document link. This patchwork quilt honors Freedwomen's  lives, collective wisdom, and historical accounts. Each patchwork square  is threaded together so you may go in and out of each one for a deeper understanding of the subjugated histories and accounts of what Freedwomen seen and experienced as enslaved women. The stories always keep [re]membering.

 

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Matilda Poe Patchwork Square
Phoebe Banks Patchwork Quilt 2
Frances Banks Patch Two
Lucinda Patch Square 2
Charlotte Johnson White Patchwork Square
Phyllis Petite Patchwork Square Two
Kiziah Love Patchwork Square
Mary Grayson Patchwork Square
Eliza Whitmire Patchwork Square
Jane Davis Ward Patch Two
Nancy Rogers Bean Patchwork Square
Sarah Wilson Patchwork Square
Sarah Wilson Patchwork Square
Jane Davis Ward Patch Two
Eliza Whitmire Patchwork Square
Mary Grayson Patchwork Square
Kiziah Love Patchwork Square
Phyllis Petite Patchwork Square Two
Lucinda Davis, Age about 89. Courtesy of Library of Congress.
Photograph of Francis Banks, c. 1910. Courtesy of Oklahoma Historical Society.
Phoebe Banks Patchwork Quilt
Matilda Poe Patchwork Square
Photograph of Charlotte Johnson, age 88. She was a former slave and lived with Kizzie McNack, a church worker, four miles east of Ft. Gibson, OK. Courtesy of Oklahoma Historical Society.
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