I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
HARRIET TUBMANForever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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You’ll be free or die!
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We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.
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I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.
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We out.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.
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Twasn’t me, ’twas the Lord! I always told Him, ‘I trust to you. I don’t know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,’ an’ He always did.
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I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
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I link dar’s many a slaveholder’ll git to Heaven. Dey don’t know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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It wasn’t me, it was the Lord! I always told Him, ‘I trust to you. I don’t know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,’ and He always did.
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I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.
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When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.
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I think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know better. They acts up to the light they have.
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