(n.) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer. Cf. Postman, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Larson said misconceptions about Tubman had flourished in part because she was a “malleable icon”.
(2) Women on 20s formally delivered a petition to the White House on Tuesday advocating for Tubman.
(3) Manuel said Obama had done this by designating large landscapes as well as places significant to landmark social movements, including labor activist Cesar Chavez’s home ; the Stonewall Inn , where a 1969 police raid kicked off a new front in the LGBT equality movement; and a park dedicated to the work of Harriet Tubman , a former slave who helped other slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
(4) By escaping slavery and helping many others do the same,” the writer Feminista Jones argued in the Washington Post , “Tubman became historic for essentially stealing ‘property’.
(5) Until they’re willing to talk reparations, leave the white guys on the money as a reminder that they created a national economy where men still get paid more than women and Tubman’s black and brown descendant daughters are hit the worst.
(6) It takes grit and it takes grace.” Placing Clinton in a lineage of great American women from Rosa Parks and Amelia Earhart to Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt, she told the delegates: “You people have made history and you’re gonna make history again in November because Hillary Clinton will be our first woman president … she’ll be the first but she won’t be the last.” Lena Dunham, creator and star of the HBO series Girls, led a series of celebrity endorsements that joined the dots between Clinton’s breaking of glass ceilings and Trump’s dismissive comments about women.
(7) Treasury Department (@USTreasury) The front of the new $20 will bear the portrait of Harriet Tubman, whose life was dedicated to fighting for liberty.
(8) As she was illiterate and unable to record her own history, little is definitively known about many details of Tubman’s life, Larson said.
(9) And I cherish stories of Fannie Lou Hamer singing “This Little Light of Mine ” just as much as I love tales of Harriet Tubman leading slaves home to the north – but tales of black exceptionalism are set in obvious contrast to the stereotypical and still resonant idea of lazy slaves and disenfranchised sharecroppers.
(10) Harriet Tubman, the anti-slavery campaigner, is set to appear on the front of the $20 bill, becoming the first woman to be the face of a bill of US currency.
(11) To put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill would be an insult to her legacy | Steven W Thrasher Read more Others have argued that the knotted history of slavery and capitalism makes money an inappropriate way to honor an escaped slave.
(12) Tubman would be the first woman to appear on a US currency bill.
(13) Tubman will be the first woman to appear as the main figure on the front of a bill.
(14) When Harriet Tubman and her brothers escaped slavery, a $300 reward was offered for the return of the three of them.
(15) After a lifetime working to improve the lives of others, Tubman still suffered at the hands of this economic system in her final days.
(16) But now that Harriet Tubman has won the unofficial vote for which woman should replace Andrew Jackson, I am less thrilled.
(17) The Treasury had reportedly considered letting Tubman bump founding father Alexander Hamilton, who has been on the $10 bill since 1928.
(18) Citing Tubman’s own words, Larson estimates that Tubman led about 70 enslaved people on 13 trips from Maryland to freedom, rather than 300 or 1,000 people, as is often written.
(19) Although he concluded with a call for unity, the president’s remarks were broadly focused on paying tribute to leaders of the abolitionist movement, such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
(20) The Hamers, Tubmans, Carvers, deGrasse Tysons, the “lazy” slaves whose resistance to the system in which they found themselves could have cost them their lives, and the black sharecroppers granted the “freedom” to “work on their former owner’s plantation at his terms,” usually in perpetual, unavoidable debt were all exceptional not for being better than their lazy brothers and sisters, but for being superior to structural racism.