Payne Family Quilt “Slave Quilt”
Hadley Collection
Handmade “Slave Quilt,” donated by Tara Payne Okon, granddaughter of former Thomasville Mayor Camille L. Payne. According to oral history, the quilt was created by an enslaved person in the 1800s and later used as payment for a grocery bill at the Payne family store in the early 1900s. .
Courtesy of the Jack Hadley Black History Museum
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