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100 years after her death, new honors for Harriet Tubman. Harriett Tubman is remembered an abolitionist, a Civil War spy, and a beacon for slaves seeking freedom, but she was also a woman who defied simple categorization, according to one of her biographers. Post to Facebook. Cancel Send.
Harriet Tubman, between 1860 and 1875. (H.B. Lindsley/Library of Congress via AP) The woman who will be the face of the new $20 bill, Harriet Tubman, was a daring and principled fighter. Her dramatic career included defying slaveowners, smuggling dozens of slaves to freedom as part of the Underground Railroad, leading raids in the Civil War, and fighting for women's right to vote -- all of which she accomplished with a disability.