Harriet Tubman
You're Dead to Me
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The Wage Benefits of a Spy and a Soldier
During the war, she gets about 200 dollars. So towards the end, she actually starts to petition the government for her back pay. She wants about 700 dollars, which is still less than what a spy would have erned. And so that's denied. I'm just like, o, you're still a bit slavy. Sorry by so i so probably as well. But also to the type of work that she did was clandestine. The claims a sort of da wat never happend, right? What was interesting, one of the things that really helped were the the biographers who worked on her behalf,. That was really the corner stone of theirs.
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