Harriet Powers (October 29, 1837 – January 1, 1910) was an American folk artist and quilter born into slavery in rural northeast Georgia. Powers used traditional...
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African American woman named Harriet Powers made quilts using Bakongo and other West African symbols. On one of Harriet Powers' quilts was a cross with four...
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African-Americans began to develop their own distinctive style of quilting. Harriet Powers, an African American woman born into slavery, made two famous "story...
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quilting due to the theorized content and story these quilts held. Harriet Powers, an African-American farm woman of Clarke County, Georgia, has become...
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Sara Branham Matthews 2008 Elfrida De Renne Barrow Amilee Chastain Graves Susan Dowdell Myrick 2009 Caroline Pafford Miller Jane Hurt Yarn Harriet Powers...
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Sara Branham Matthews 2008 Elfrida De Renne Barrow Amilee Chastain Graves Susan Dowdell Myrick 2009 Caroline Pafford Miller Jane Hurt Yarn Harriet Powers...
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from the original on June 20, 2015. Retrieved May 17, 2015. Ryan, Harriet; Powers, Ashley (September 28, 2008). "His life now: With friends like these...
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Warpaths". Kyra E. Hicks (2009), This I Accomplish: Harriet Powers' Bible Quilt and Other Pieces. Harriet Powers Archived October 18, 2007, at the Wayback Machine...
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Sara Branham Matthews 2008 Elfrida De Renne Barrow Amilee Chastain Graves Susan Dowdell Myrick 2009 Caroline Pafford Miller Jane Hurt Yarn Harriet Powers...
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Sara Branham Matthews 2008 Elfrida De Renne Barrow Amilee Chastain Graves Susan Dowdell Myrick 2009 Caroline Pafford Miller Jane Hurt Yarn Harriet Powers...
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Harriet Ruth Harman KC (born 30 July 1950) is a British politician and solicitor who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for over 40 years, from 1982 to 2024...
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in a thoroughly western European fashion. During the 19th century, Harriet Powers made quilts in rural Georgia, United States that are now considered...
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Sara Branham Matthews 2008 Elfrida De Renne Barrow Amilee Chastain Graves Susan Dowdell Myrick 2009 Caroline Pafford Miller Jane Hurt Yarn Harriet Powers...
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was "Negro Day" at the exposition. Famed African American quilter Harriet Powers attended this day and met with Irvine Garland Penn, the chief of the...
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Sara Branham Matthews 2008 Elfrida De Renne Barrow Amilee Chastain Graves Susan Dowdell Myrick 2009 Caroline Pafford Miller Jane Hurt Yarn Harriet Powers...
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1955) conceptual artist Charles Ethan Porter (1847/49–1923) painter Harriet Powers (1837–1910), folk artist Walter Price (artist) (born 1989), painter...
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Quilt by Patricia McKissack Leaving Gee's Bend by Irene Latham History of African-American quilting Harriet Powers Quilts of the Underground Railroad...
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Sara Branham Matthews 2008 Elfrida De Renne Barrow Amilee Chastain Graves Susan Dowdell Myrick 2009 Caroline Pafford Miller Jane Hurt Yarn Harriet Powers...
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Sara Branham Matthews 2008 Elfrida De Renne Barrow Amilee Chastain Graves Susan Dowdell Myrick 2009 Caroline Pafford Miller Jane Hurt Yarn Harriet Powers...
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known photograph to exist of Harriet Powers, an African-American slave, folk artist and quilt maker from rural Georgia. Powers used traditional appliqué...
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Sara Branham Matthews 2008 Elfrida De Renne Barrow Amilee Chastain Graves Susan Dowdell Myrick 2009 Caroline Pafford Miller Jane Hurt Yarn Harriet Powers...
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Sara Branham Matthews 2008 Elfrida De Renne Barrow Amilee Chastain Graves Susan Dowdell Myrick 2009 Caroline Pafford Miller Jane Hurt Yarn Harriet Powers...
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ethnomusicologist, and music theorist Harold J. Powers (1900–1996), Lieutenant Governor of California Harriet Powers (1837–1910), African American slave, folk...
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(d. 1916) 1832 – Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian saint (d. 1869) 1837 – Harriet Powers, American folk artist and quilter (d. 1910) 1855 – Paul Bruchési, Canadian...
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wanted to display "the ignorant contented darky—as distinguished from Harriet Beecher Stowe's monstrosities." Felton considered "young blacks" who sought...
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was taken in 1851 and who recorded his guests as "fugitive slaves," and Harriet Martineau who arranged for their intensive schooling at the village school...
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to Taylor in Boston, cofounder of NAACP and donated her house for the Harriet Tubman House for young women. King Taylor, Susie (2016). Reminiscences...
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Sara Branham Matthews 2008 Elfrida De Renne Barrow Amilee Chastain Graves Susan Dowdell Myrick 2009 Caroline Pafford Miller Jane Hurt Yarn Harriet Powers...
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Sara Branham Matthews 2008 Elfrida De Renne Barrow Amilee Chastain Graves Susan Dowdell Myrick 2009 Caroline Pafford Miller Jane Hurt Yarn Harriet Powers...
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