An artist's rendering of abolitionist Harriet Tubman on a $20 bill. By DeNeen L. Brown DeNeen L. Brown Local enterprise reporter Email Bio Follow May 22 at 11:59 AM The redesign of the $20 bill featuring abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery and led hundreds of other people to freedom, will no longer be unveiled in 2020, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday.
Tubman was born Araminta Ross sometime between 1819 and 1823 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where officials recently dedicated landscapes and waterways as the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Historic National Park. Iron handcuffs on display inside the Bucktown Village Store, where Harriet Tubman was injured and almost killed around 1835 in Cambridge, Md. In 1849, worried she and others would be sold to another plantation, Tubman decided to escape. She could not convince her husband to leave with her. So she escaped with two of her brothers — Ben and Henry — from Poplar Neck Plantation. But soon, Ben and Henry became frightened and turned back, according to the Tubman museum.
Slave owners issued huge rewards for Tubman’s capture. By 1856, rewards for her added up to $40,000 — about $1 million in today’s currency, according to the Tubman museum. Still, she kept coming back. She made at least 19 trips, freeing more than 300 enslaved people, guided by the North Star along the underground railroad.
Historians still marvel at Tubman’s brilliance in avoiding capture and her stealth. She often dressed like a man. Bounty hunters did not realize it was a woman helping people escape. Allen wrote that Tubman was the only woman who led men into battle during the Civil War. Tubman persuaded formerly enslaved men to track Confederate camps and report on their movements.
let's start a petition to push this through. jackson was an asshole.
Tubman currency note is the second coming of the Sacagawea coin, tremendous waste of money to manufacture and no one will want to use it.
I feel since I know who Harriet Tubman is maybe, the rest of the black community should acquaint themselves before they have any disrespectful ideas 💡
Get your Tubman bill stamp from Etsy.
GodBless her. Rest in peace.
Amen. I like your moxie!!!
Harriet Tubman was a great lady that had made great stride in the history of United States.
dbongino seanhannity We should not be tampering with the US currency denominations and key prominent Americans whose pictures are on the bills.
She was the real deal.
Credit the proprietor of Trump Steaks, University, Miss Universe, SoHo, Tower with knowing the value of 'branding' and 'unbranding.' Many, however, are oddly nostalgic for The Obama Years
Turning Tubman into a 'gender warrior' is disgusting.
General Tubman
I am all for her being on the $20!!’ Just share it with the countless white folk who helped! equalitynow
When Tubman was around a Trump was getting kicked out of Germany...or so the story goes.
Put her on the bill.
However, her old man Leroy used to put his foot in her ass whenever she burnt the chicken pot pie.
So did Rosa Parks. ❤️💐🙌😢😇💐❤️
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