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I started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.

Harriet Tubman

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Color Friendship Goodness Time Trust
God’s time is always near. He gave me my strength and he set the North Star in the heavens; He meant I should be free.
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Freedom Giving God Heaven Stars Strength Time
Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
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Forever Freedom Journey
Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
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Naked Slave
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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Blood Dead Fall Gun Light Thunder
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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Family Freedom Man Prison Thinking Time
I started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
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Death Head Ideas Liberty Slave Start
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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Condition Escape Freedom Slave
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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Act Heaven Light Slave
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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Live Lord People Take Care
The good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
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Deliver Help Lord People Slave
I had crossed the line. I was free; but, there was no one there to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
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Freedom Land Strange Welcome
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
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Passenger Story
I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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Appearance Bad Hell Person Slave
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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Change Person Slave
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
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Dreamer Drean Inspirational One Liner

I started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.

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