I love that the "my job is politics" people are complaining that someone is motivating a group of under-engaged voters by promising to do broadly popular things

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They always round the sharp edges of real heros

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She was a total badass with a million dollar bounty on her head

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a young, healthy male slave would bring about $400 then. They were offering 100 x that for her, most of the Southern population was looking for her, and she got past them - every - time.

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"Tubman had made the perilous trip to slave country 19 times by 1860, including one especially challenging journey in which she rescued her 70-year-old parents." By 1856, there was a reward of $40,000 for capturing, or giving information for the capture, of Ms Tubman. To put this in perspective,

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