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#280435 - 04/21/16 09:41 PM Harriet Tubman, equipped
clearwater Offline
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Registered: 03/19/05
Posts: 1181
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She is to be on the $20 bill in about 4 years. Cool




Edited by clearwater (04/21/16 09:46 PM)

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#280436 - 04/21/16 10:04 PM Re: Harriet Tubman, equipped [Re: clearwater]
Mark_R Offline
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Registered: 05/29/10
Posts: 863
Loc: Southern California
The attempted linked article was on guns.com noted that the Harriet Tubman image to be on the front of the $20 bill would likely be one of her with her gun(s). She carried a pistol for protection against the slave catchers and as motivation for weak-hearted runaways slaves on the underground railroad, and a sharp-shooter rifle during the Civil War.

The sword appears to be a model 1840 light artillery saber with a rework grip.
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#280441 - 04/22/16 09:05 PM Re: Harriet Tubman, equipped [Re: clearwater]
TeacherRO Offline
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Registered: 03/11/05
Posts: 2574
EDC a sword. Hmmmm

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#280442 - 04/22/16 11:27 PM Re: Harriet Tubman, equipped [Re: TeacherRO]
Bingley Offline
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Registered: 02/27/08
Posts: 1576
Originally Posted By: TeacherRO
EDC a sword. Hmmmm


Why not? Swords never run out of ammo!

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#280443 - 04/22/16 11:44 PM Re: Harriet Tubman, equipped [Re: Bingley]
hikermor Offline
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Registered: 08/26/06
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Loc: southern Cal
Swords are just big knives. I am intrigued by the pistol. It looks very similar to the 1842 Navy pistol carried by my great grandfather at Shiloh. He wasn't in the military then, but his father was a farmer and itinerant preacher in the area. One of his stops, every third Sunday, was the little country chapel of Shiloh. After the battle, he and the family, ardent abolitionists, had to leave western Tennessee, a strong pro-slavery area, via the underground railroad, which fortunately for his descendants, practiced EEO principles. The family wound up in Illinois, becoming dam'Yankees.

My mother, Southern belle, always referred to that pistol as "the Yankee cannon."
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