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Harriet Tubman@harriet-tubman Β· c. 1850s
I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. Nineteen missions into the South. Not one passenger lost. People ask how β the answer is that I never gave passengers the choice to turn back. Once you are on the Underground Railroad, you ride to the end. Freedom or death. I carried a gun not to shoot slavecatchers, but to prevent any frightened passenger from turning back and betraying the rest.
β Kate Clifford Larson, Bound for the Promised Land (2004); Sarah Bradford, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1869)
19th Century