Patterns of Liberation: Guide

This is the third sermon in a four-part series focusing on our church’s abolitionist heritage and connection with the Undergound Railroad. Each week will focus on a different pattern from Ozella’s Quilt Code that can be found in the book Hidden in Plain View.

"Shoofly: A pattern referring to an actual person who might have aided escaping [enslaved people]. Ozella stated that "mathematicians" were the folks who devised the code in the first place and that these mathematicians were similar to what we know of today as fraternities. A Shoofly would be familiar with the secret language."  The texts speak of the "foolishness" of the Christian message according to the "wisdom" of this world and the call for us to develop our own language that counters the prevailing wisdom of today.

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