A small rectangular quilt with a primarily appliquéd design depicting Nat Turner as a child sitting outside with his grandmother learning to read (from the Bible) under a crescent moon. The grandmother wears a skirt composed of a black fabric with printed narrow stripes and small-scaled geometric pattern, an apron of red and white woven check, a gold blouse with polychrome floral print and gold metallic buttons, and an elaborately patterned polychrome printed head kerchief. The child Nat, at her side or seated on her lap, wears a tan shirt with woven black stripe and blue-green buttons, and brown pants. The faces and features of these two subjects are not delineated. The child points to the opened book (Bible) on which lines from Psalm 23 are embroidered in black threads on a white page. Gold metallic threads outline the book cover and pages. Various fabrics, including a green colorway of the black cotton used in the woman's skirt, a solid brown, a solid grey-green, a printed polychrome fabric with diaper pattern of small floral designs, and a coarse cotton with a larger scale floral print are positioned around the figures to indicate a landscape of fields. Butterflies cut from a white paisley print on yellow ground fabric hover about. A tone on tone green print with repeating leaf motif creates a distant forest, while four patches of off-white and varied tan and brown shades form a simple appliquéd building. Above, a transparent dark blue fabric dotted with bits of metallic silver layered over printed cotton and/or polyester fabric with mottled blue surface represents the night sky. Added crystal beads punctuate this sky with star-like elements. A circular piece of dark blue denim with crescent-shaped cut out appliquéd over a light grey and white dotted cotton creates a moon. More distant elements of the cosmos are depicted with layered appliquéd nylon tulle. The images in this composition have been assembled with Thermoweb to an under layer of black fabric and sewn with long, widely spaced running stitches in contrasting polychrome threads Yellow, blue, red, brown, and black double strands of cotton thread outline virtually all individual fabric sections of the image, which are left with unturned and unfinished edges. The quilt is backed with the same fine solid black cotton fabric used for the faces and arms/hands of the figures. A layer of blended cotton/polyester batting creates dimension when sewn through all layers. However, outline stitching does not travel through all layers of the quilt. The only "quilting thread", i.e. thread passing through all layers to the reverse, is a clear polyester, which is machine-sewn in outline and in irregular patterns and stitch lengths within and around some of the images. Machine stitches in this same thread surround the perimeter for structural purposes, but these are covered by a straight-grain binding cut from the same black print as is used in the skirt of the female subject. This material is folded over the quilt edges with the reverse side of the fabric showing to give a grey toned finished edge of approximately 1/2" on all sides and both front and back faces. The cut edges of this binding are folded under stitched by machine on the front, brought over the edge, folded under on the reverse as well and whip stitched to the backing/lining. The corners of the binding are folded into an approximate miter. A fabric label with the artist's written signature is sewn to the reverse.