Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
HARRIET TUBMANI link dar’s many a slaveholder’ll git to Heaven. Dey don’t know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey hab.
More Harriet Tubman Quotes
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Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
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If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, ‘Peace, Peace,’ as much as they likes – I know it’s goin’ to be war!
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If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty-five years. All these years he was always thinking of his home, and counting by years, months, and days, the time till he should be free, and see his family and friends once more.
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Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
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Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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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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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.
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