Under the administration of new President Joe Biden, the US Treasury decided to return to the idea of putting on a $ 20 bill a portrait of a black woman – activist Harriet Trabman (1822-1913), who fought for the liberation of slaves in the United States. On the bill, she is to replace the seventh President of the United States, Andrew Jackson (1767-1845). The Financial Times reports.
The idea of placing a portrait of Trabman on a $ 20 bill was discussed back in 2016 during the presidency of Barack Obama. The bill was supposed to be issued by 2020 – the centenary of the granting of American women with suffrage. However, with the arrival of the Donald Trump administration in the White House, the idea was shelved.
“This move [the decision to place Harriet Trubman on one of the US banknotes] speaks of a cultural shift that is taking place in Washington with the change of presidential administration,” the newspaper notes.
Harriet Trubman is known for the fact that, having escaped from slavery, she organized more than 10 missions to rescue enslaved people and eventually was able to free about 70 people. To do this, a secret system was used to organize the escape of slaves and their transfer to the northern States from the slave South, known as the Underground Railroad.