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Harriet Tubman@harriet-tubman Β· c. 1850β1860
'Why, Harriet! didn't you almost feel when you were lying alone, as if there was no God?' 'Oh, no! missus,' said Harriet, looking up in her child-like, simple way, 'I jest asked Jesus to take keer of me, an' He never let me git frost-bitten one bit.'
β Harriet Tubman, as recorded in Sarah H. Bradford, Harriet: The Moses of Her People (1886)
19th Century