Tag: Harriet Tubman
Dishonoring General Jackson
Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
In Samuel Eliot Morison’s “The Oxford History of the American People,” there is a single sentence about Harriet Tubman.
“An illiterate field hand, (Tubman) not only escaped herself but returned repeatedly and guided more than 300 slaves to freedom.”
Morison, however, devotes most of five chapters to the greatest soldier-statesman in American history, save Washington, that pivotal figure between the Founding Fathers and the Civil War — Andrew Jackson.
Slashed by a British officer in the Revolution, and a POW at 14, the orphaned Jackson went west, rose to head up the Tennessee militia, crushed an Indian uprising at Horseshoe Bend, Alabama, in the War of 1812, then was ordered to New Orleans to defend the threatened city.
In one of the greatest victories in American history, memorialized in song, Jackson routed a British army and aborted a British scheme to seize New Orleans, close the Mississippi, and split the Union.
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Llpoh should be happy. Central bankers should be happy. Black people should be happy. Women should be happy. Even angry people should be happy, based on the look on old Harriet’s face. She don’t look too happy.
I wonder if I randomly asked 100 people in West Philly to name the person in that picture and tell me what she did, how many would know? My guess is maybe 3 people would know.
