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What They Didn’t Teach You in School about Harriet Tubman
National Review ^ | 04/22/2016 | Eli Lehrer

Posted on 04/22/2016 8:37:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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21 posted on 04/22/2016 10:10:44 AM PDT by beaversmom
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pretty soon there is going to be antoehr underground railroad, for Christians- trying to escape the persecution of the homosexual nazis who are taking over-


22 posted on 04/22/2016 10:12:34 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: katana

Hamilton was the leader of the Federalist Party.


23 posted on 04/22/2016 10:13:27 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo ( Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. - Groucho Marx)
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To: Bob434

Yep you are sooo correct


24 posted on 04/22/2016 10:18:24 AM PDT by easternsky
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To: Rustybucket

Barry won’t spend 10 days a year at his mansion in Hawaii...he will be on the “wallet enrichment tour” just like Billy Blythe did after his terms. Oldest daughter will be in college, younger one will continue to be raised by Grandma and Moochy will be on her own get rich quick tour - she and Barry will occasionally be seen in public together to keep the appearance of a marriage going.


25 posted on 04/22/2016 10:41:36 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: SeekAndFind

What is never mentioned is that ALL the currency machines in this country and elsewhere that accept U.S. $20 bills are going to have to be reformatted in order to accept this new bill.


26 posted on 04/22/2016 10:44:11 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: lacrew

Poor Moochy’s ancestors. They made them sit in the back of the Underground Railroad.


27 posted on 04/22/2016 10:48:30 AM PDT by Yaelle (Tinkerbelle glittering up the runway for Trump Force One!)
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Yes, Harriet Tubman is buried in Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn. I lived in Auburn for a little over three years while working at Auburn prison. I traveled back there several times doing Civil War research. On one of my trips, I met a great-niece of Tubman. Tubman was affiliated with the A.M.E. Zion Church in Auburn, which is now on Fulton Street.

I did my thesis on the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which was the sister regiment to the 54th Massachusetts, featured in the movie "Glory." During my research, I came across some excerpts from the Civil War diary of George Thompson Garrison, who was a lst Lieutenant in the 55th, and also the son of the abolitionist/journalist, William Lloyd Garrison. Harriet Tubman worked very closely with Colonel James Montgomery of the 2nd South Carolina, also known as the 34th U.S.C.T. She served as guide on several of the raids and expeditions on Confederate sites along the coast of South Carolina. In early February 1864, she was seen by Lt. Garrison on Folly Island, S.C. This island is connected to James Island, and isn't that far from Charleston. James Island was held by the Confederates. Folly Island was the site of Union camps, and where the 54th and 55th units were stationed for most of the war.

The Garrison diary excerpt pertaining to Tubman was found in the Wilder Collection of Cornell University. It reads as follows:

"She took me greatly by surprise when I entered by giving me a hearty embrace, flinging both her arms about me. Till this morning, I was not aware she was upon the island. She says she has been here three months."

William H. Seward is also buried in Fort Hill, as are several other noted people:

Fort Hill Cemetery Notable Burials

One of the families I met were descendants of the Osborne family who still live in the area. During my research, I met and became friends with the great niece of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (54th Mass). May Minturn Osborne's great grandmother was Shaw's sister, Susannah Shaw, who had married Robert Bowne Minturn. The Osbornes are also related to Thomas Mott Osborne, who was prison reformer, and Mayor of Auburn. The Mott connection is through Lucretia Mott. May Osborne unfortunately passed away several years ago.

28 posted on 04/22/2016 11:03:27 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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She is buried in my birthplace town,and where most of ny family still lives. This community set the tone for the decency and fairness that should be everywhere. God bless her memory,she was a great role model.


29 posted on 04/22/2016 11:21:15 AM PDT by samantha (keep up the fight....)
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I really enjoyed living in Auburn for the time I was there. I was born and raised in Rochester, NY, then moved to the Utica/Rome area, but moved to Auburn with my two sons when I started working at the prison as a Correctional Officer in September 1980. I transferred from Auburn in December of 1983 to a prison in the Utica/Rome area. Loved eating at The Sunset restaurant. When I head back to the Rochester area to visit family, I try to stop at The Sunset for take-out on the way home.


30 posted on 04/22/2016 11:48:19 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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In its very earliest days, yes, along with John Adams and John Jay. So to be exactly precise you’re correct. But the Federalists were more a faction that believed in a stronger central national government and the last time they occupied the still-under-construction-and-not-yet-white White House was in 1801. But the dividing lines were fluid. For example, Madison was one author of the Federalist Papers, but also a founder with Jefferson of the Democratic Republican Party (ancestors of today’s Democrats).


31 posted on 04/22/2016 11:51:18 AM PDT by katana (+)
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To: mass55th

Oh my Lord,that guy was lucky to walk out in one piece. About the prison,When I was a kid we used to always look at copper John on top of the prison,and be excited. I have a younger brother and sister that live a few blocks from the prison. It was a great area to grow up in,but it has lost a lot of businesses not unlike most of central ny. The democrat leadership in NY state does not care a whit about central or western ny. I will pass that video on,and it will be all over Facebook by tonight.


32 posted on 04/22/2016 4:42:13 PM PDT by samantha (keep up the fight....)
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To: Agamemnon

I read the article - I don’t understand your flag waving point?


33 posted on 04/22/2016 5:09:18 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: SeekAndFind

Nope. Not in my wallet.


34 posted on 04/22/2016 5:14:52 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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As I said before, she was an amazing lady. She’d have no use for the likes of Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.


35 posted on 04/23/2016 10:59:32 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gates)
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It’s too bad they don’t tell the truth in school.

Actually that’s an understatement, it’s a travesty.


36 posted on 04/23/2016 7:17:05 PM PDT by Impy (Did you know "Hillary" spelled backwards is "Bitch"?)
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“..it’s a travesty.”

It IS!


37 posted on 04/24/2016 1:14:28 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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