A New York designer is using 3-D stamps to replace slave owner Andrew Jackson’s face with the woman who escaped slavery and led hundreds of others to freedom.
Harriet Tubman stamp on $20 bill. By DeNeen L. Brown DeNeen L. Brown Local enterprise reporter Email Bio Follow May 23 at 8:54 PM Minutes after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday that he was delaying the new Harriet Tubman $20 bill until 2028, a New York designer tweeted: “We’ll see about that.”
Jackson, the nation’s seventh commander in chief, was a slave owner. Tubman, who escaped slavery on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, helped lead hundreds of people to freedom along the Underground Railroad.
But Jackson was also the president responsible for the 1830 Indian Removal Act, which forced more than 60,000 Native Americans from their lands and onto the Trail of Tears.In her book, “Unhinged,” former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman wrote that when Trump was shown an image of Harriet Tubman, his response was: “You want me to put that face on the twenty-dollar bill?”
A photograph of Harriet Tubman from the late 1860s. Wall said he created the stamps with a 3-D printer and laser cutters. “I got some engravable rubber and that is how I made the stamp face,” Wall said.
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