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The doodle is by the legendary Woody Guthrie, from Steven Brower & Nora Guthrie, Woody Guthrie Artworks (Rizzoli, 2005).
Ms. Harriet Tubman has an astonishing legacy: a leader of enslaved people to freedom, a nurse, spy, and cook in the Civil War, a caretaker for the sick and elderly, and a suffragist. Her actions have touched generations of people looking to improve the quality of the human condition. Proof of her reach can be seen in the art created by those inspired by her extraordinary life.
Visual Art
In this portrait, painted by William H. Johnson, Ms. Tubman stands before a day and night connected by a railroad passing by her feet. She is tall, taller than everything else, and is wearing a bonnet that evokes a Christ-like halo – she is “the Moses of her people,” after all.
American folk music icon Woody Guthrie wrote the biographical tune “Harriet Tubman’s Ballad” in celebration of her life. The most powerful line of the song?
To Abe Lincoln this I said: You’ve just crippled that snake of slavery We’ve got to fight to kill him dead.
While this poem by Eloise Greenfield includes a few exaggerations about Ms. Tubman’s life, the beauty in her journey remains: her determination, selflessness, and courage ensured that she and those she led to freedom “wasn’t going to stay [a slave] either.”
Harriet Tubman by Eloise Greenfield
Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff Wasn’t scared of nothing neither Didn’t come in this world to be no slave And wasn’t going to stay one either
“Farewell!” she sang to her friends one night She was mighty sad to leave ‘em But she ran away that dark, hot night Ran looking for her freedom
She ran to the woods and she ran through the woods With the slave catchers right behind her And she kept on going ‘til she got to the North Where those mean men couldn’t find her
Nineteen times she went back to the South To get three hundred others She ran for her freedom nineteen times To save Black sisters and brothers
Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff Wasn’t scared of nothing neither Didn’t come in this world to be no slave And didn’t stay one either
And didn’t stay one either
This December, we will be releasing our newest book, Harriet Tubman For Beginners by Annette Alston and illustrated by Lynsey Hutchinson. Follow this blog to learn more about Harriet’s life and legacy as we lead up to the release.
Ms. Harriet Tubman has an astonishing legacy: a leader of enslaved people to freedom, a nurse, spy, and cook in the Civil War, a caretaker for the sick and elderly, and a suffragist. Her actions have touched generations of people looking to improve the quality of the human condition. Proof of her reach can be seen in the art created by those inspired by her extraordinary life.
Visual Art
In this portrait, painted by William H. Johnson, Ms. Tubman stands before a day and night connected by a railroad passing by her feet. She is tall, taller than everything else, and is wearing a bonnet that evokes a Christ-like halo – she is “the Moses of her people,” after all.
American folk music icon Woody Guthrie wrote the biographical tune “Harriet Tubman’s Ballad” in celebration of her life. The most powerful line of the song?
To Abe Lincoln this I said: You’ve just crippled that snake of slavery We’ve got to fight to kill him dead.
While this poem by Eloise Greenfield includes a few exaggerations about Ms. Tubman’s life, the beauty in her journey remains: her determination, selflessness, and courage ensured that she and those she led to freedom “wasn’t going to stay [a slave] either.”
Harriet Tubman by Eloise Greenfield
Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff Wasn’t scared of nothing neither Didn’t come in this world to be no slave And wasn’t going to stay one either
“Farewell!” she sang to her friends one night She was mighty sad to leave ‘em But she ran away that dark, hot night Ran looking for her freedom
She ran to the woods and she ran through the woods With the slave catchers right behind her And she kept on going ‘til she got to the North Where those mean men couldn’t find her
Nineteen times she went back to the South To get three hundred others She ran for her freedom nineteen times To save Black sisters and brothers
Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff Wasn’t scared of nothing neither Didn’t come in this world to be no slave And didn’t stay one either
And didn’t stay one either
This December, we will be releasing our newest book, Harriet Tubman For Beginners by Annette Alston and illustrated by Lynsey Hutchinson. Follow this blog to learn more about Harriet’s life and legacy as we lead up to the release.
Ms. Harriet Tubman has an astonishing legacy: a leader of enslaved people to freedom, a nurse, spy, and cook in the Civil War, a caretaker for the sick and elderly, and a suffragist. Her actions have touched generations of people looking to improve the quality of the human condition. Proof of her reach can be seen in the art created by those inspired by her extraordinary life.
Visual Art
In this portrait, painted by William H. Johnson, Ms. Tubman stands before a day and night connected by a railroad passing by her feet. She is tall, taller than everything else, and is wearing a bonnet that evokes a Christ-like halo – she is “the Moses of her people,” after all.
American folk music icon Woody Guthrie wrote the biographical tune “Harriet Tubman’s Ballad” in celebration of her life. The most powerful line of the song?
To Abe Lincoln this I said: You’ve just crippled that snake of slavery We’ve got to fight to kill him dead.
While this poem by Eloise Greenfield includes a few exaggerations about Ms. Tubman’s life, the beauty in her journey remains: her determination, selflessness, and courage ensured that she and those she led to freedom “wasn’t going to stay [a slave] either.”
Harriet Tubman by Eloise Greenfield
Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff Wasn’t scared of nothing neither Didn’t come in this world to be no slave And wasn’t going to stay one either
“Farewell!” she sang to her friends one night She was mighty sad to leave ‘em But she ran away that dark, hot night Ran looking for her freedom
She ran to the woods and she ran through the woods With the slave catchers right behind her And she kept on going ‘til she got to the North Where those mean men couldn’t find her
Nineteen times she went back to the South To get three hundred others She ran for her freedom nineteen times To save Black sisters and brothers
Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff Wasn’t scared of nothing neither Didn’t come in this world to be no slave And didn’t stay one either
And didn’t stay one either
This December, we will be releasing our newest book, Harriet Tubman For Beginners by Annette Alston and illustrated by Lynsey Hutchinson. Follow this blog to learn more about Harriet’s life and legacy as we lead up to the release.
