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Harriet Powers (October 29, 1837 – January 1, 1910) ... Following the American Civil War, the Powerses and their children were emancipated. On the 1870 census they ...
Harriet Powers, Bible quilt, Mixed Media. 1898. The earliest evidence of African-American art in the United States is the work of skilled craftsmen slaves from New England . Two categories of slave craft items survive from colonial America: articles that were created for personal use by slaves and articles created for public use.
Her letters remain one of the few surviving primary accounts of female soldiers in the American Civil War. [27] [28] Laura J. Williams was a woman who disguised herself as a man and used the alias Lt. Henry Benford in order to raise and lead a company of Texas Confederates. She and the company participated in the Battle of Shiloh. [29] [30]
In the many decades between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, such divisions became increasingly irreconcilable and contentious. [1] Events in the 1850s culminated with the election of the anti-slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln as president on November 6, 1860.
October 10 – Robert Gould Shaw, Union Army general in the Civil War and reformer (killed in action 1863) October 12 – Preston B. Plumb, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1877 to 1891 (died 1891) October 29 – Harriet Powers, African American folk artist (died 1910) November 3 – John Leary, politician, 37th Mayor of Seattle (died 1905)
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In 1976, Fry published landmark research about American quilt maker Harriet Powers' life in Missing Pieces: Georgia Folk Art 1770-1976, an exhibit catalog.This was the first full-scale investigation about the life and Bible-themed quilts of Powers (an African American slave, folk artist and quilt maker from rural Georgia, whose surviving works are on display at the National Museum of American ...
Harriet Powers' Bible Quilt, 1886. Harriet Powers, an African-American farm woman of Clarke County, Georgia, has become famous for her quilts of the 1880s. One of her most well-known, and one of her only remaining preserved quilts, was known as the Bible Quilt.