On display at the Smithsonian, the world’s largest museum, is a quilt known as the Bible Quilt! It was made by Harriet Powers, an African American farm woman from Clarke County, Georgia, and first exhibited at The Athens Cotton Fair in 1886—an artistically created quilt admired over the decades of its history. Harriet Powers, born a slave and thought by many to be an illiterate woman, was, in fact, quite literate! In a discovered letter she’d written, she tells of learning to read “with the help
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