{"id":1514,"date":"2021-08-12T19:19:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T23:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/fdl\/?page_id=1514"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:45:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:45:52","slug":"douglass-tubman-mural","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/fdl\/douglass-tubman-mural\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglass\/Tubman Mural"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Douglass\/Tubman Mural<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#9f123a;font-size:30px\">&#8220;The Dreams of Harriet Tubman, &#8216;The Creation of Wealth,&#8217;<br>dedicated to the struggle for just reparations from the crimes of slavery.&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:20px\"><strong>by Muralist Mike Alewitz<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/fdl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2021\/08\/douglasstubman.jpg\" alt=\"The Dreams of Harriet Tubman, &quot;The Creation of Wealth&quot;,\ndedicated to the struggle for just reparations from the crimes of slavery. December 11, 2000\" class=\"wp-image-1517\" title=\"Douglass Tubman Mural\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/fdl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2021\/08\/douglasstubman.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/fdl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2021\/08\/douglasstubman-300x121.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">A<strong>ssisted by:<\/strong> Jacqi Warner, Young Ran Shin, Nathan Hays, Marela Zacarias, and Allen Needle<br><strong>Special thanks to:<\/strong> Ernest Satchell<br><strong>Sponsored by\u00a0Baltimore Clayworks\u00a0and the\u00a0Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>&#8220;The Dreams of Harriet Tubman&#8221; is a series of mural projects created by Mike Alewitz in 1999-2000 honoring Tubman&#8217;s legacy. &#8216;The Creation of Wealth&#8221; mural was completed at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore on December 11, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The text on the sail is a quotation from Frederick Douglass (1857):<\/strong><br>&#8220;If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation<br>are people who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Further information:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/fdl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2026\/03\/Dreams_of_Harriet_Tubman_Alewitz-2000.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/fdl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2026\/03\/Dreams_of_Harriet_Tubman_Alewitz-2000.pdf\">&#8220;The Dreams of Harriet Tubman&#8221; by Mike Alewitz<\/a>, May 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!-- Start of StatCounter Code for Default Guide -->\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var sc_project=8230175; \n            var sc_invisible=0; \n            var sc_security=\"df0e6f74\";\n<\/script>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; font-weight: bold;\">\n    <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statcounter.com\/counter\/counter.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<noscript>            <div class=\"statcounter\" style=\"text-align: center; font-weight: bold;\">                 <a title=\"Reliable Statistics\" href=\"https:\/\/statcounter.com\/tumblr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"statcounter\" src=\"https:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/8230175\/0\/df0e6f74\/0\/\" alt=\"Reliable Statistics\"><\/a>\n                        <\/div>         <\/noscript>\n<!-- End of StatCounter Code for Default Guide -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglass\/Tubman Mural &#8220;The Dreams of Harriet Tubman, &#8216;The Creation of Wealth,&#8217;dedicated to the struggle for just reparations from the crimes of slavery.&#8221; by Muralist Mike Alewitz Assisted by: Jacqi Warner, Young Ran Shin, Nathan Hays, Marela Zacarias, and Allen NeedleSpecial thanks to: Ernest SatchellSponsored by\u00a0Baltimore Clayworks\u00a0and the\u00a0Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation &#8220;The Dreams of Harriet Tubman&#8221;&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/fdl\/douglass-tubman-mural\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Douglass\/Tubman Mural<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"Anton","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-1514","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/fdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/fdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/fdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/fdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/fdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/fdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/fdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/fdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}