Posted on 01/26/2021 8:33:31 AM PST by Kaslin
Now that Joe Biden is in the White House, Democrats are once again on the march, this time to put abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. They don’t actually know very much about Harriet Tubman, but she was Black, and Democrats desperately want to put somebody Black on our money. So here she comes.
I say they don’t know very much about Ms. Tubman because Democrats announced this on the same day that Democrats sent a procession of House Managers over to the Senate to deliver an Article of Impeachment against former President Trump. They are charging him with “inciting insurrection.”
If Democrats want to impeach someone for inciting insurrection, they could start with Harriet Tubman. She was one of the major planners of the attempt to take over and occupy the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859. Seventeen people were killed in that action. The leader, John Brown, was charged with treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, murder, and inciting insurrection. He and six others were convicted and executed for their roles in the attack. Had she not fallen ill shortly before the attack, Harriet Tubman might well have been among those captured and executed.
Michigan State University maintains an extensive online history of the Civil War era, and has an entire section devoted to Harriet Tubman. The chapter entitled “John Brown’s War” tells us:
John Brown was a famous abolitionist who was identified as being a violent abolitionist. Tubman had been an admirer of John Brown for a while. Tubman had met John Brown through fellow abolitionist Frederick Douglass. In 1858 John Brown had began to finish up his plans for the raid. When Tubman finally met with Brown he would keep referring to her as “General Tubman.” After Tubman heard his plan she was on board, and was set to go and recruit men for the raid. That summer she continued to raise funds for Canada while helping John Brown. She even stayed with Douglass at the time. Tubman had suggested July 4th for the raid on Harpers Ferry. Brown and Douglass had different ideas on how the Raid was supposed to go, Douglass said that Brown’s idea was suicidal. Brown wanted to do a full scale attack instead of doing small guerilla attacks. After Brown said he would not be deterred Douglass decided to back out. Brown went ahead and attacked Harpers Ferry. The attack was ill fated as [Brown] successfully got some slaves and was able to arm them. However they were eventually defeated and John Brown was sentenced to death. In the wake of the defeat Tubman had to keep a low profile because anyone who was involved in the planning of the raid was in jeopardy.
According to West Virginia Archives and History,
Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman were asked to join the raiders, and Harriet Tubman agreed to participate but was ill at the time of the raid.
One hundred-sixty years ago, Harriet Tubman narrowly escaped being hung for treason. But I guess if you wait long enough, you’ll be right on the money.
There are lots of reputable source references to support Tubman's acts of insurrection. Very interesting that Tubman wanted the raid to occur July 4. The raid was postponed, however, because someone with loose lips alerted authorities to the plans.
In their zeal to delouse themselves of their racist past, demonicRATS have launched a torpedo that has recalibrated and has acquired their signai.
O, if only somebody on "our" side had the sense to use his or her radio show or TV show to re-educate their audience about such matters and throw it in demonicRATS' faces instead of knee-jerkingly chasing the Fake News Media squirrel-du-jour.
(Yes, I know he belongs on a $3 bill...)
There is a “double” irony, because the Deep State wants to abolish cash and control us using digital currency.
The Tubman twenty dollar bills would in fact be used by “dangerous radicals” resisting state oppression!
There are idiots here prefer over Jackson
After all super idiot Glenn Beck liked her
And Beck like Clapton is God to the stuoids
No offense Eric
I didn’t know that Harriet Tubman was part of John Brown’s circle. That kinda cast’s a shadow on her and the whole Underground Railroad, doesn’t it? I wonder how many more of them supported John Brown with money or other forms of aid?
Of course, only someone as ruthless as Harriet Tubman could have made 19 trips and rescued 300 slaves.
The rebellion was quelled and John Brown captured by U.S. Marines who quickly mobilized and joined up with Col. Robert E. Lee and J.E.B. Stuart.
I hope they use the pic of Tubman with her gun. That would be cool.
Meanwhile, others believe the democRATS conspiracy to fraudulently cheat in the 2020 election is excusable because it was the only way they could get into power.
It doesn't bother you that Harriet Tubman conspired against the federal government to seize the U.S. Armory, Arsenal, and U.S. Rifle Works at Harpers Ferry and Hall's Island?
Tubman planned and recruited men to seize the federal assets. Sixteen were killed, and many more were held hostage. One hostage was Lewis W. Washington, great grandnephew of George Washington. John Brown knew Washington had inherited a sword and pistols which belonged old George himself. Brown wanted the historic weapons for himself.
According to accounts I’ve read, it was Tubman and others who spelled the demise of John Brown. Not that he wasn’t batsh1t mad and grandiosely arrogant. But he had promises and expectations from the likes of Tubman that the would come and support him once he took possession of the arsenal. They had no such will. He was a fool not to understand the mental/emotional state of most freed men, let alone lifelong slaves.
I did watch that movie Harriett, and I will admit they put her in a very good/strong light, almost a grandiose psychology like Brown had.
I know all of that. I was kidding. Although I think it’s ironic that the RATs hold her in high esteem when she’s totin’ that gin.
Supposedly she spent time at an Underground Railroad house in our town, but I never believed it. Not sure if she was in western NYS.
I'm certainly not an expert on this history, but just a handful of years later there would be masses of people taking over and occupying various installations in the state of Virginia.
Did the evil of slavery justify killing the citizens of the slave states, including those who owned no slaves?
Was the Harper's Ferry arsenal a tool of oppression? I think a case can be made for that.
< insert “gin? gun? here >
The left wing kooks have always been violent.
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