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Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!

Harriet Tubman

I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Always Children Easy Sister
I am at peace with God and all mankind.
HARRIET TUBMAN

God Mankind Peace
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

Arms Dreams Field Green Lady Love Stretch Vision
I started with this idea in my head, “There’s two things I’ve got a right to, death or liberty.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Death Head Ideas Liberty Slave Start
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Change Person Slave
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Color Friendship Goodness Time Trust
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Live Lord People Take Care
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!
HARRIET TUBMAN

Heart Peace War
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Alive Death Liberty Man Mind Reason Right
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
HARRIET TUBMAN

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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Passenger Story
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Always Expectation Lead Lord Trust
Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Abroad Letter Love Prayer Watch
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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Heaven Light 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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Act Heaven Light 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.
HARRIET TUBMAN

Family Freedom Man Prison Thinking Time

Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!

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