Harriet Tubman Was A Gun-Toting Republican

American Thinker ^ | April 22, 2016 | Daniel John Sobieski

[raptor22]

There are some knee-jerk reactions to the seemingly "political correctness run amok" move to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, replacing President Andrew Jackson. But the replacing of the slave-owning founder of the Democratic Party with a gun-toting black Republican may spark a political debate worth having and unearth historical truths worth learning. As PJ Media described the announcement:

The first woman on United States bank notes will be the famous abolitionist and Republican Harriet Tubman, Politico reported Wednesday. She will give the boot to the nation's sixth president and a major figure in the Democratic Party, Andrew Jackson, on the $20 bill, and save the founder of the nation's financial system, Alexander Hamilton, from being kicked off the $10 bill.

[Dr. Ursus]

Also,a bible reading Christian!

[HarleyLady27]

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.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Just the kind of person who deserves the honor.

[Blood of Tyrants]

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.

[taterjay]

Hillary will be memorizing that quote now.

[Michael.SF.]

We are going to read a lot of Harriet Tubman exaggerations. This is one from columnist Eugene Robinson:

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.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks raptor22.

(Note: there's been pushback and spin about this from the usual brain-dead leftist drones)

[TwelveOfTwenty]

True, but not for the same reasons.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Andrew Jackson was beaten by the British. He nearly starved to death.

Fought in 3 wars.

Paid off our national debt.

Let the Indians know who was boss.

Destroyed the central bank.

Tubman doesn't deserve to be on the $20 bill. This is typical, leftist racial politics.

[rockrr]

Change for the sake of change - what a typically progressive idea...

[Arm_Bears]

The Left is just gonna have a fit about this when they find out.

Ignorance can be entertaining, at times.

[ronnietherocket3]

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.

Some states already allowed women to vote. It was not a right under the federal constitution nor was it forbidden.

[HarleyLady27]

I didn’t say she needed to be on any bill, I was just giving out information maybe someone would like to read about...

[Milhous]

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.

[Cyman]

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.

[Travis McGee]

[dljordan]

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.

[wardaddy]

Hear hear

It’s Obama in our face

Just wait

The race baiting left have grown bold

They will purge all paper and coin of the realm to be replaced by their own

[katana]

She’s replacing Jackson. Jefferson’s still on the two dollar bill. Obama will be on the $3 note (to be called the broke back).