Ellen Morton Littlejohn

Ellen Morton Littlejohn (c. 1826 - 1899)[1] was an enslaved African-American quilt maker.

Littlejohn was enslaved by Marmaduke Beckwith Morton, who owned an estate called "The Knob" in Russellville, Kentucky.

[2] After slavery was abolished, Littlejohn remained at Morton's estate, where she lived and worked until his death in 1887.

[2] One of Littlejohn's quilts, which she made with her sister, Margaret Morton Bibb, and which uses a variation of the Star of Bethlehem design, is housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[2][3] Another quilt attributed to Littlejohn and Bibb, “Whig Rose and Swag Border Quilt,” was also made for Elizabeth Morton, and is now housed at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.