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 looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.
Never wound a snake; kill it.
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.
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
I can't die but once.
Slavery is the next thing to hell.
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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.
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
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.
Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.