“Take My Hand”, a Harriet Tubman Mural in Cambridge MD Mural information: This mural was painted in 2019 by Micheal Rosato, a resident of Dorchester County, Maryland, where Harriet Tubman was born and lived in slavery for over 25 years. Rosato was commissioned by the Dorchester Center for the Arts in celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Maryland State Arts council. When asked in an interview from WJZ Rosato stated “The inspiration comes from that moment when an enslaved person has to make a decision to take Harriet’s hand and then that journey to freedom.” This mural can be found outside of the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center in Cambridge Maryland.

Who Harriet Tubman was: Harriet Tubman was an African American woman born around the year 1820 in Dorchester County Maryland. From the age of 12 her desire for justice was apparent as she stepped in the path of an overseer throwing a heavy weight at a fugitive. She took the blow which she said “broke her skull” and left her with recurrent headaches, narcolepsy, and vivid dreams she claimed were religious visions. Despite her ailments and major setbacks like the Fugitive slave act of 1850, she went on to free herself along with at least 70 others slaves. Her service continued on during the civil war as she worked as a spy for the Union and delivered crucial information about Confederate army troops and supply routes, as well as liberated enslaved people to form Black Union Regiments. In her later years she continued her virtuous work and had an “open door policy” helping anyone in need of it. The head injury she suffered as a child continued to cause her distress even after she received brain surgery to alleviate her symptoms. Her health continued to worsen until she died from pneumonia in 1913.
  

 

 

 

 

 
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