Lily F's Artist's Statement:
My piece is about the Missouri Compromise in 1820. the split down the middle represents the split between the North and the South, and how they were so divided. With Missouri in the center and on both sides of the split, it shows how it was at an indecision and disagreement whether to be a slave or free state. But with the chains pulling Missouri from both the North and the South side, you can see that the both sides of the US were having a "tug-of-war" over the state. In the upper corner, the handshake signifies the compromise itself - and on either side of the handshake, you see the results - the North with Maine, and the South with Missouri.
Lilly D's Artist Statement:
My quilt piece is about the Missouri Compromise that happened in the time of 1820. The Missouri Compromise was when the division between the North and South was very distinct and they were both very different groups. When the state Missouri was founded the North and South both wanted the state for themselves and were at a disagreement with each other about owning that specific land. The conflict was that the North wanted Missouri to be a freed slave state and the South wanted Missouri to be a enslaved state. In my piece the chains that are pulling Missouri to the North and South represents the conflict between the two, the handshake in the left top represents the compromise and the establishment they made with each other, the handcuffs on the bottom represents the south being an enslaved area and lastly the state of Maine was owned by the north and the South owned Missouri in the end.
This is a picture of the Missouri Compromise itself.
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