Harriet Powers: Portrait of a Black Quilter.

Harriet Powers 1837-1910 was an African American folk artist and quilt maker from rural Georgia, United States born into slavery.

In 2009, a copy of an 1896 letter from Harriet Powers to a prominent Keokuk, Iowa woman surfaced.

In her letter, Harriet Powers also describes a quilt made about 1882 that she called the Lord's Supper quilt.

Southern American quilting: Harriet Powers.

During the 19th century, Harriet Powers made quilts in rural Georgia, United States that are now considered among the finest examples of 19th-century Southern quilting.

Harriet Powers, who was born a slave, made a quilt of biblical scenes mixed with events from the local history of Athens, Ga., where she lived.

Harriet Powers, a slave-born African American woman, made two famous story quilts.

October 29 - Harriet Powers, African-American folk artist (d. 1910)

Harriet Powers (1837-1911), a freed slave from Clarke County, Ga., couldn't read or write.