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"Giants" 16" X 20" $49.95
Printed On Archival Acid Free Art Paper Price Includes Shipping & Handling As history is told and passed down in homes, villages, regions , nations and the world, there are certain people that not only lived through it, but took the proverbial bull by the horns and became that part of history themselves. The piece described here is called “Giants” because all the people depicted are those that were faced by impossible odds, not the worst being death, did not shrink but boldly and steadfastly became over comers. From Fredrick Douglas, the overt abolitionist who was the first Negro invited to the White House for dinner to President Obama changing what is deemed impossible in our nation. Dr King knew he would never see the Promised Land but he, along with all the civil rights fighters made it possible for the rest of us to get there someday. Every one of these Giants sacrificed not only their personal lives with family and friends but untold riches and gain. George Washington Carver felt his peanut research belonged to the people, not to him. He sent his peanut butter research to a dentist in Indiana whose patients could not chew after surgery. All of these Giants faced death, probably none more than the diminutive Harriett Tubman. At 4ft 7inches tall, lead slaves away from the oppressive plantations, through scores of “slavers” sent to capture or kill them. Ms Tubman had a forty thousand dollar bounty on her head because of her “Underground Railroad” efforts. She carried two guns at all times and was heard to shout to the runaway slaves in her charge “run to the lights children, run to the lights. Those who were sent to collect the bounty on her head, often died by her guns. During her life and death escapes, she would have to keep the group going if one or more of the runaways were slowing them down by leaving the stragglers or shooting them so the group could live. These “Giants” had the common thread of slaying self for the good of the group, race, or nation.
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