Posted April 22nd, 2016 at 12:56 pm (UTC-5)
($20 is) the precise amount Harriet’s elderly father Ben Ross, a timber harvester, paid his employer…in 1855, to buy his wife Rit her freedom….Two years later, a desperate Harriet would demand $20 of abolitionists at the Anti-Slavery Office in New York to fund a mission to bring her septuagenarian parents from Maryland to Canada.
The 20 Is the Right Bill for Harriet Tubman
($20 is) the precise amount Harriet’s elderly father Ben Ross, a timber harvester, paid his employer…in 1855, to buy his wife Rit her freedom….Two years later, a desperate Harriet would demand $20 of abolitionists at the Anti-Slavery Office in New York to fund a mission to bring her septuagenarian parents from Maryland to Canada.