Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubmanwas an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved families and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era was an active participant in the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth29 January 1820
CityDorchester County, MD
CountryUnited States of America
'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!
I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'
'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 stage or in no theater.
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.
If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.
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.
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.
I can't die but once.
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land, and my home after all was down in de old cabin quarter, wid de ole folks, and my brudders and sisters. But to dis solemn resolution I came; I was free, and dey should be free also; I would make a home for dem in de North, and de Lord helping me, I would bring dem all dere.
Slavery is the next thing to hell.
Never wound a snake; kill it.
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.