After escaping slavery, Tubman led hundreds of other people to freedom.
An artist's rendering of abolitionist Harriet Tubman on a $20 bill. By DeNeen L. Brown DeNeen L. Brown Local enterprise reporter Email Bio Follow May 22 at 11:59 AM The redesign of the $20 bill featuring abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery and led hundreds of other people to freedom, will no longer be unveiled in 2020, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday.
Tubman was born Araminta Ross sometime between 1819 and 1823 on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where officials recently dedicated landscapes and waterways as the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Historic National Park. Iron handcuffs on display inside the Bucktown Village Store, where Harriet Tubman was injured and almost killed around 1835 in Cambridge, Md. In 1849, worried she and others would be sold to another plantation, Tubman decided to escape. She could not convince her husband to leave with her. So she escaped with two of her brothers — Ben and Henry — from Poplar Neck Plantation. But soon, Ben and Henry became frightened and turned back, according to the Tubman museum.
Slave owners issued huge rewards for Tubman’s capture. By 1856, rewards for her added up to $40,000 — about $1 million in today’s currency, according to the Tubman museum. Still, she kept coming back. She made at least 19 trips, freeing more than 300 enslaved people, guided by the North Star along the underground railroad.
Historians still marvel at Tubman’s brilliance in avoiding capture and her stealth. She often dressed like a man. Bounty hunters did not realize it was a woman helping people escape. Allen wrote that Tubman was the only woman who led men into battle during the Civil War. Tubman persuaded formerly enslaved men to track Confederate camps and report on their movements.
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