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Ms Tubman

: Ms, according to Globe and Mail. Tubman will become the first woman to have her portrait appear on U.S. paper currency in more than 100 years and the first African-American ever so honoured in the country history. Now their daughter will displace a former president on the face of a new U.S. $20 bill. Born into a world where she was someone else property, Ms. In a move fraught with symbolism, Ms. Tubman escaped slavery, led dozens to freedom in the northern states and Canada, worked as a spy for the Union army during the U.S. Civil War and spoke out in support of women suffrage. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.