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| | Threads of Freedom: The Underground Railroad Story in Quilts |
 | | This nationwide, informal network of fugitive slaves and their supporters was particularly strong in Ohio, which became known as its "trunk line." In 1787 Congress abolished slavery in the Northwest Territory, a region that became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota. |
 | | Because the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 still permitted southern slaveholders to apprehend fugitives in northern states, however, once the fugitives were in Ohio they continued north into Canada, which had no such provision. |
 | | The earliest quilt in the exhibition is the Abolitionist Quilt, an album quilt made around 1842 by Hadley family members of Clinton County, Ohio, and Wayne County, Indiana. |
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