Also,a bible reading Christian!
She was born a slave in Maryland somewhere around 1820-1825. She escaped from slavery by using the Underground Railroad — a series of secret routes running from the safe house of one anti-slavery citizen to another, which provided fleeing slaves safe passage and assistance from the South into the Northern states or Canada (see some of the routes on the map on the left). After finding refuge in Philadelphia, Tubman then began working for the Underground Railroad. She was a devoted abolitionist and took multiple trips to the South to help escaping slaves and also served as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, as well as supporting fellow abolitionist leader John Brown.
During the Civil War, Harriet worked for the North as a nurse, a cook, a scout, and a spy, even receiving later in life a pension for the services she performed at that time.
She was a devout Christian her entire life. Thomas Garrett (a Quaker partner and friend of Tubman’s) said of her, “I never met with any person, of any color, who had more confidence in the voice of God, as spoken direct to her soul.” Harriet also acknowledged her dependence on God, recalling about her race to freedom:
I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. . . . My brothers, and sisters, and friends were there [in slavery in the South]. But I was free, and they should be free. I would make a home in the North and bring them there, God helping me. Oh, how I prayed then, I said to de Lord, “I’m gwine to hole stiddy on to You, an’ I know You’ll see me through.”
She died in relative obscurity in 1913, and her many contributions, largely unknown at that time, slowly became public over the years, and she has now become recognized as a true American Christian hero.
While she probably supported Republicans, as a black woman who died before women’s suffrage was passed in 1920. So she could not have registered in either party.
During the Civil War, she guided a team of Union scouts operating in the marshlands near present-day Beaufort, S.C. In 1863, she led a raid on plantations along the Combahee River that freed more than 750 slaves — becoming, apparently, the first woman to lead U.S. troops in an armed assault.
As I recall the story, she was there, she was a scout, she did help, but "lead U.S. troops in an armed assault". Me thinks there is a bit of over exaggeration at play here.
They ought not replace Jefferson on the $20. They need to replace Hamilton on the $10 with either Tubman or the more avant garde Jenner.
I can hardly wait for my ancestors to vilify me because I had the unmitigated gall to marry a woman. I am sorry in advance for my sins.
So what? What kind of recognition do you think that gets us with the Marxists? They run conservatives around the tree trying to prove we’re not racists. We will never win until we just don’t give a damn.
The progressive left must scratching their heads about how most real conservatives responded to this change. Sure, The Donald was against it, but he was trying to appeal to the Neanderthal stereotype that he has of low-education conservatives. Rush Limbaugh had a much better response, which is very well captured by the poster that compares racist, slave-owning founder of the modern Democrat party with gun-toting, slave-liberating Republican woman of color.
At least she wasn’t a filthy blog pimp like you.