Posted on 07/08/2020 4:53:12 PM PDT by raptor22
President Trump concluded his Friday night Mount Rushmore speech by announcing the signing of an executive order creating a “National Garden of American Heroes” in which the statues of those anarchists would consign to the ash heap of history would reside to remind future generations of how we became who and what we are, to remind us of the struggle against tyranny and injustice. Trump righteously stood before the visages of the likes of Thomas Jefferson, the maligned slave-owner who helped create a nation and a process that would end slavery. He stood before the face of Abraham Lincoln, the first president of the Republican Party, the abolitionist party formed to end the Democrats’ claimed ownership of their fellow human beings. Jefferson wrote that all men were created equal and endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Lincoln, after the Battle of Gettysburg in a Civil War that took the lives of hundreds of thousands of so-called white-privileged Americans, spoke of a new birth of freedom and a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, that he would not allow to perish from the earth.
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Tubman saved her own relatives. Just them.
Right. There is no evidence the underground railroad even existed. Despite that the media academia etc. have built it into this huge network with all kinds of statios just about everywhere.
Harriet was an incredibly brave woman. I hope she is very well remembered.
Republican? Where did she vote?
“There is no evidence the underground railroad even existed.”
And a few years ago a new “cult” sprang up in the quilting community with a far-fetched story about quilts and the underground railroad. Supposedly, women would hang certain quilts outside as signals for slaves to follow indicating friendly homes, directions to the next “station”, etc.
It’s been proven a crock, but some people love the lore.
Around 1957 my Mother set up this frame in our living room in Leonia, Florida. For a couple of weeks ladies from the community made a large number of quilts.
They would first do the top and bottom then lay out rolls of cotton, then tie the tops, bottoms and cotton together. They stood around that frame and gossiped.
Other children got Mothers but I do recall they were very fine quilts and all the ladies had obviously done it before.
She couldn’t save her daughter, who had slave children on an adjacent plantation, and wouldn’t leave because she’d never see those children again. And it’s untrue that Tubman only saved her relatives. Visit the museum in Cambridge, MD and the Visitor Center outside Cambridge on land where Harriet was once a slave. Her birth name was Araminta Ross. She was married to a Tubman before he left her. I never learned why she changed her first name.
It did exist. My 3rd great grandfather helped slaves escape through it. There are several houses (at least two for sure) in Monroe County, Michigan and Sylvania, Ohio and probably Fulton County, Ohio, that were stops.
I read about her some time ago. The only evidence is a book written by someone who knew her with zero evidence to support it.
Tubman could not read or write.
I don’t doubt that you will find thousands of stories about it but no real proof.
I bet there are hundreds more out there. All of them made up.
I’m in a hand quilting group in TN. We don’t tie them off, but do actual quilting. And it’s very social, with the big plus being beautiful quilts at the end.
Growing up, our church’s ladies group had quilting bees. We kids would sit under the frame while the ladies quilting and talked. We learned a lot just bu listening.
The Underground Railroad is indeed true. Trying to change history, or just ignorant?
Mother used scraps sewed together for the tops and bottoms.
The whole thing about her came out when they wanted to put her face on a twenty dollar bill.
What is your problem with black history and its heroes/heroines?
Actually do a little research then come back and apologize.
Not happening.
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