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Harriet Tubman's image to be placed on $20 bill

Harriet Tubman will be depicted on the front of the $20 bill, the Treasury Department an­nounced April 20.

The move will make the abolitionist and Under­ground Rail­road conductor, who was an un­abash­ed Chris­tian, the first African American to be portrayed on the front of a bill.

Tubman was born in slavery around 1820 in Maryland and died free in 1913. After escaping in 1849 to Philadelphia, she returned to the South more than a dozen times, helping to lead hundreds of slaves to freedom, which earned her the name Moses.