Harriet Tubman series, panel 15

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Title Harriet Tubman series, panel 15
Creator Jacob Lawrence
Creator Nationality American
Style Period 20th Century Art; Modern Art
Description In the North, Harriet Tubman worked hard. All her wages she laid away for the purpose of liberating her people, and as soon as a sufficient amount was secured she disappeared from her Northern home, and as mysteriously appeared one dark night at the door of one of the cabins on the plantation, where a group of trembling fugitives was waiting. Then she piloted them North, traveling by night, hiding by day, scaling the mountains, wading the rivers, threading the forests - she, carrying the babies, drugged with paregoric. So she went, nineteen times liberating over 300 pieces of living, breathing "property."
Subject African American Art; Harlem Renaissance; History
Creation Date 1938 - 1940 CE
Form painting
Medium casein tempera on hardboard
Dimensions 17-7/8 x 12 in.
Repository Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA (United States)
Source Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman series of 1938-40. Ellen Hawkins Wheat. Hampton University Museum and University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1991.
Work ID 24552
Rights In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
ARK ark:/87278/s6c00dhm
Setname uu_aah_art
ID 1369280
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6c00dhm
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