Sierra & Ana - Sarah's Office

Sierra Cleary’s Artist Statement.

      John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry was one of the battles that started the Civil war. In the quilt the river is the Potomac for they crossed over to get to the town. Crossing the bridge was the beginning of the raid which led up to eventually having nations secede from the nation, hence the confederate flag. Some people still even fly the flag today in remembrance of the Civil war. The hanging knot symbolizes all the deaths in the civil war which was over 620,000 people. This included all of John Brown’s men and eventually him for he was hanged in 1859 and later viewed  as an abolitionist who was fighting for a just cause in the North and a murderer in the South . either way he became a dividing symbol of the nations.

                             Ana William's Artist Statement
My quilt square is a river with a bridge and on the top of the bridge is the confederate flag, below in the picture it says so it begins,there is a hang thing under the bridge and a bunch of dead people on the grass.
This event is The Raid Of Harpers Ferry. This relates to the civil war because (the event was before the civil war but was one thing that started it) John Brown raided Harpers Ferry to steal weapons to free slaves but instead he got in huge trouble which then led to his hanging in 1859. In the Civil war 620,000 people died. Some people still wave the Confederate flag to symbolize the Civil war.