Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Harriet Tubman No. 15. In the North, Harriet Tubman worked hard. All her wages she laid away for the one 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." (1940)
Mark's Pages
January 10, 2013:
Stillness.
Radical.
Violence without movement, jungle without growth, death without resistance or convulsion or protest.
