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Harriet Tubman: Twan't me, 'twas...

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Twan't me, 'twas de Lord! Jes' so long as he wanted to use me, he would take keer of me, an' when he didn't want me no longer, I was ready to go; I always tole him, I'm gwine to hole stiddy on to you, an' you've got to see me trou.

Source: In Words to Make My Dream Children Live, by Deirdre Mullane, 1995.
-- 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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