Harriet tubman

Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the...

You'll be free or die!

Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus' as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an' I could not understand 'dem, no how.

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.

I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.

'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.

I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no...

Twasn't me, 'twas 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,' an' He always did.

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.