Harriet Tubman To Be The New Face Of The $20 Bill

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Better Tubman than that duelist, Indian slayer and all around nasty man, Andrew Jackson. The one good thing he did was get rid of Alexander Hamilton's National Bank. Unfortunately the National Bank is back. We call it the Federal Reserve.

Out with the big-time Democrat, in with the pistol-packing Christian Republican.

History FAIL. She didn't even have the right to vote or to own a gun in her life time. So she could not have been a gun toting Republican.

Nice try though to rewrite history.

Second Amendment Foundation founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb said that “We also understand that Eleanor Roosevelt’s image will appear on the back of the $5 bill. It is widely known that Mrs. Roosevelt, while she was First Lady and afterwards into the 1950s when she traveled and promoted civil rights, carried a pearl-handled Smith & Wesson revolver.”

For use on a treasury note, I would have preferred choosing Deborah Sampson who dressed as a 16-year-old Revolutionary War young man and soldier. She used her musket well, was wounded in battle, and, with the help of Paul Revere himself, later won government approval to receive a military pension for her service. She was one of the few women to receive battle pensions, and probably the only known transgender soldier in the American Revolution.

I just read somewhere that Tubman carried a cap and ball pistol both for her own protection, and to "encourage" any escapees that got cold feet, lest they betray the whole operation after capture.

She was so kick-ass and makes today's movie heroes and heroines look positively milquetoast.

Deborah Sampson was yet another early American woman who puts modern action-fiction characters to shame. To wit:

"...she took two musket balls in her thigh and a cut on her forehead. She begged her fellow soldiers to let her die and not take her to the hospital, but they refused to abandon her. A soldier put her on his horse, and took her to a hospital. The doctors treated her head wound, but she left the hospital before they could attend to the musket balls. Fearful that her true identity would be discovered, she removed one of the balls herself with a penknife and sewing needle."

At one point I researched as much as I could about her w/o access to source materials and I could find nothing that indicated she identified as anything other than a woman. Most important is that, unlike a few of the Civil War vets, Charlie Parkhurst or even Joan d'Arc, Ms. Sampson did not wear men's attire before or after the war. It appears she was simply a very brave, determined and dedicated cis-het woman who cross-dressed to help an emerging country that still viewed women as incapable of sovereignty.

Yep. I hesitated using the descriptor "transgender" in my post, but, however briefly, I think it was a correct term, if not too accurate. And, yes, kick-ass by the standards of future generations after her.

Is this a joke?

We've already established that Tubman "toted" firearms on several occasions. And while no American women in Tubman's lifetime voted in national elections, a situation she worked to change, there can be no doubt whatsoever which party she would have favored: the party of abolition, Reconstruction, and (not coincidentally) women's suffrage.

Bluster is a poor substitute for facts.

I think Tubman would have been a Republican, back then, when the Republicans were the radical left of the day.

I hear she was a nurse and a scout/spy for the union army, which is pretty cool. Regardless of what you believe about the thought that the parties were "switched" at the time, I think a lot of us from both sides can agree that she did amazing work.

In 1756, Lydia Taft became the first legal woman voter in colonial America. This occurred under British rule in the Massachusetts Colony.[19] In a New England town meeting in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, she voted on at least three occasions.[20] Unmarried women who owned property could vote in New Jersey

IMO, it's funny and strange how much both the Republican and Democrat parties have changed over time.

I think it would be a mistake to assume that political parties and ideologies are permanent. Rather, the political landscape is alive, and always in a state of flux and transformation. When I was a kid, blue collar union members like my dad had been the core of the Democratic party, till more and more of them became "Reagan Democrats," as many of them were cultural conservatives.

Wasn't Reagan a Democrat early in his political career?

I agree with you about not everybody in a political party having the same views. I remind people of this a lot.

Yes, Reagan had been a Democrat, till the red baiting he had been involved with during the Hollywood blacklist fell out of favor with the increasingly liberal Democrats.