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Harriet Tubman: Yes, John saw...

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Yes, John saw de City. Well, what did he see? He saw twelve gates, didn't he? Three of dose gates was on . . . de south; an' I reckon, if dey kill me down dere, I'll get into one of dem gates, don't you?

Source: In Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People, by Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.
-- Harriet Tubman, ( c.1820-1913), US abolitionist, emancipator; Moses of Her People escaped slavery at the age 25, but returned to the South 19 times to spirit 300 people to Canada on the Underground Railroad.

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