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Interest in a statement purportedly uttered by 19th century African-American abolitionist Harriet Tubman was renewed in April 2016 after the U.S. Treasury Department announced that a portrait of the famous American humanitarian would be replacing that of President Andrew Jackson on the front of the U.S. $20 bill: In 2008, feminist writer Robin Morgan penned an essay intended as a sequel to her famous 1970 Goodbye to All That piece. One passage focused on post-feminism and used a quote purportedly from Harriet Tubman to suggest that some women don't realize the fight for equality isn't over: While Morgan presented this phrase as an authentic quote from Harriet Tubman, several historical scholars disagreed. The Maxwell Perspective attempted to get to the bottom of the issue in an article published shortly after Morgan's essay: Likewise, Kate Clifford Larson (author of Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero) vowed that the quotation was of recent vintage, and no evidence backed the notion that the abolitionist actually spoke or wrote these words: Rice University professor (and slavery historian) Dr. W. Caleb McDaniel wrote that circulating this particular fake quote is actually harmful both to Tubman's legacy and to current efforts of anti-slavery activism:
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