And I happen to think that this is quite an appropriate honor to give this most remarkable and courageous lady.
As
WikiPedia will tell you, did you know that this escaped slave at one time
led an armed Army expedition to free more than 700 slaves? Yes, indeed. That and much more. She had risked her life to save other slaves many, many times before ... even when she,
as(!) an escaped slave, herself, faced arrest and imprisonment
in the North!
After the war, she was very active in the fight to secure women's voting rights, and in providing care for the elderly and indigent in her communities. This was not a lady who just talked about what to do – she
did them, often at the risk of her own life.
Furthermore, in the days in which she lived, she carried two
(albeit, different) social stigmas: she was a former
slave, and she was a
woman.
She does, indeed, richly
deserve the many honors that were bestowed upon her in life, and in her memory. I have a number of biographies of her, and they are
real ...
... "page turners."
