We Shall Pass through the Combahee

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

Part of the artist's story quilt series narrating key moments in Harriet Tubman's life.

"I have a political agenda of telling the story of Tubman and telling how important she is in American history, just like Leutze had an agenda creating this sort of mythological image of Washington." - Stephen Towns

Towns modeled We Shall Pass through the Combahee after Emanuel Leutze’s 1851 painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware, which famously depicts George Washington crossing the Delaware River during the American Revolutionary War.

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