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Beginning with Tubman’s childhood—and discussing other notables in the war against slavery such as Nat Turner and Frederick Douglass

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Turner Watercolours Illustrated by Merrilee Liddiard her little sisterFew can doubt that J. M. W. Turner (17751851) was the greatest exponent of British watercolor in its golden age. An inveterate traveler in search of the ideal vista, he rarely left home without a rolled up, loose bound sketchbook, pencils, and a small traveling case of watercolors in his pocket. He exploited as no one before him the mediums luminosity and transparency, conjuring light effects on English meadows and Venetian lagoons and gauzy mists