I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
HARRIET TUBMANI grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
HARRIET TUBMANForever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation.
HARRIET TUBMANI would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
HARRIET TUBMANI was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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.
HARRIET TUBMANThe good Lord has come down to deliver my people, and I must go and help him.
HARRIET TUBMANI 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.
HARRIET TUBMANMost of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked.
HARRIET TUBMANGod’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.
HARRIET TUBMANI 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.
HARRIET TUBMANI freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
HARRIET TUBMANI 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.
HARRIET TUBMANOh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
HARRIET TUBMANI said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.
HARRIET TUBMANThe 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.
HARRIET TUBMANI looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
HARRIET TUBMAN