Slave Trade-Emerald Seale-Michael's Office

 

My theme is slavery. My quilt shows how slavery was a HUGE reason that the civil war happenened. It shows some history on the U.S., too. It shows what the North felt and what the South felt and what the slaves felt. The bars of the slave's prison cell are the red stripes on the American flag, and the star in the corner is torn in half and bleeding to show the split country. The Union (North) hand is shown breaking the bars and freeing the slave. The Confederates (South) hand is shown glueing the bars back together, trapping the slave. This all shows how slavery split up the U.S. and caused the Civil War.