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It was against the law to teach a slave to read or write. In reality the slaves used gospel songs to relay messages to each other while working and the quilts had a pattern they could read a meaning once they knew the pattern.

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Q: Why would abolitionist use quilts and patterns to communicate with fugitive slave instead of posters of written text?
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