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In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn’t reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

Harriet Tubman

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
Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!
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Desert Lord Trouble
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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Change Person 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 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 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
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
I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them.
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Blood Drop Freedom Slave Tears
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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Alive Death Liberty Man Mind Reason Right
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 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
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
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
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Freedom Slave
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
Slavery is the next thing to hell.
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Deep Hell One Liner Slavery
In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn’t reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
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Arms Dreams Field Green Lady Love Stretch Vision

In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn’t reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

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In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn’t reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

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