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
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 can't die but once.
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.
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
Twant 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,' and He always did.
Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.