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If Canada could have hoped for anyone on a United States Treasury Note, it would have to be Harriet Tubman.

Here was a woman who lived in Canada, who risked her life to turn people into Canadians and stands as a testament that when it came to basic human freedom, the so-called “land of liberty” couldn’t hold a candle to a cold, agrarian British colony.

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“I wouldn’t trust Uncle Sam with my people no longer, I brought ’em all clear off to Canada,” Tubman told her biographer in 1869.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that the U.S. $20 bill will soon feature Tubman in place of seventh president Andrew Jackson, one of four men featured on U.S. money who owned slaves.