Posted on 04/22/2016 12:58:58 PM PDT by Twotone
It was announced this week that Harriet Tubman will be on the face of the new $20 bill, to replace Andrew Jackson. Far too few today have heard much about this remarkable woman, so this is a good time to learn something about Harriet Tubman.
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.
Pretty nondescript American to be on the face of money
But hey, Mirian Anderson made it too . . . .
I'm sure you've seen the recent news that Harriet Tubman will be the new face of the $20 bill.
She may indeed be the first libertarian to be featured on US currency!
:)
They say she shot some Democrats.
#BlackGunOwnersMatter
I saw that IowaHawk picture on Facebook. What a wonderful way to tweak the lefties noses. They thought they were just honoring a black woman, & could claim points for doing so. But honoring a Black Republican (or Libertarian) who very obviously understood gun rights is just too funny!
Jackson was one of our greatest presidents, a great man, a man among men whose accomplishments as president were enormous, including facing down the banks, winning, closing the central bank, and kicking off SIXTY SIX years of prosperity, returning the USA to a normal economic cycle ended only in 1913 by the creation of the Federal Reserve, and it's just been downhill from there. Jackson KNEW, had VISION, was unafraid, was not one of the ELITE and stood up to the elites who already had built a professional political class in Washington of corruption and bribery. Jackson faced them down. And that doesn't even MENTION the enormous everlasting significance of his winning the Battle Of New Orleans. Jackson, too, was a man of the people. Not the elite. They didn't like his TONE, the way he talked, what he said about people because he didn't mince words---sound kinda like someone in politics now who is about to become the Republican nominee for president?
Yes, this was the other outrageously dumb thing that Trump said, that Jackson should have stayed on the twenty. I couldn’t remember what it was.
This is a feint. It’s a head-fake. Obama wants to be on one of the US bills.
People will say, ‘Only presidents belong on US bills’. And they’ll say, Okay, why not Obama?
That’s if they object to Tubman and get called racists.
This is what it’s all about. Remember you heard it here first.
I would leave Jackson on the twenty, he was a President of this Great Nation, then I would put Tubman on another bill as she did a lot to help the slaves...
People need to recognized for what they have done in their lives that built this Country into America...
MLK was another great man, he brought the Black Community and the White Community together, and we were getting better until obamy came along, and now look, we have to start all over again...
Thank you for this information on Tubman, I enjoyed it...
The Battle of New Orleans is meaningless. The peace treaty had already been signed.
Ignore the libtard race baiting Canuck troll down thread
You’re running a fools errand
You’re running a fools errand
Did i post something on Tubman? I don't think so, but I could be wrong. I read a piece by a U of Boston on Tubman yesterday. In a nutshell most of the stories they teach about her in schools are mythological with zero sources in real history or the period. No offense to her. Just a fact.
I have a personal code of honor I live by: Never get into a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
US bills should only feature U.S presidents.
You mean like Hamilton and Franklin?
Only U.S presidents
Plus, Frederick Douglass was a featured speaker there in the years surrounding the Civil War.
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