Harriet Tubman
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Harriet Tubman (1822 in Dorchester County, Maryland - March 10, 1913 in Auburn, New York), also known as Black Moses, was an African-American freedom fighter. An escaped slave, she worked as a guerrilla, farmhand, lumberjack, laundress, cook, refugee organizer, raid leader, intelligence commander, nurse, healer, revival speaker, feminist, fundraiser, and conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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- I can't die but once.
- I freed thousands of slaves; I could have freed more if they knew they were slaves.
- 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.
- I never lost a passenger.
- I love all of the african americans like they are my children.
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About Harriet Tubman
- One of the bravest persons on this continent. ~ John Brown
- Excepting John Brown... I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people. ~ Frederick Douglass
- I never met any person of any color who had more confidence in the voice of God. ~ Thomas Garrett
- I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madame C. J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge.
- Her tales of adventure are beyond anything in fiction and her ingenuity and generalship are extraordinary. I have known her for some time -- the slaves call her Moses.
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