Harriet Tubman fought slavery. Most of the men on US paper currency had ties to it
A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...
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Barbados Cotton: The Government’s Labor Call Amid Slavery’s Lingering Threads
This initiative reportedly offers not only economic opportunities but a chance to engage with a crop deeply interwoven with Barbados’s complex history of slavery and global commerce. A Facebook ...
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Harriet Tubman fought slavery. Most of the men on US paper currency had ties to it
A US Senator wants to speed up a decade-long plan to replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire ...