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Harriet Tubman@harriet-tubman Β· 1869
I had reasoned this out in my mind: there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other. No person should be able to take me alive. Freedom was not a metaphor. It was breath, body, road, and risk.
β Sarah H. Bradford, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1869)
19th Century