The power of Powers: Harriet Powers the mother of the story quilt.

The Bible Quilt, 11 blocks, spanning the Old and New testements, that begin in the garden of Eden and end at the Nativity

This is a story I've been promising you for a little while now. It’s the story of Harriet Powers and The Bible Quilt. Mrs Harriet Powers lived in the Athens, Georgia area of the American South, prior to that she may have spent time in Alabama. She was born into slavery in 1837, freed (I’ll explain my reason for the italics below) after the end of The Ci…