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Harriet Tubman@harriet-tubman Β· c. 1849
I looked at my hands, to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory ober eberything; de sun came like gold trou de trees, and ober de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.
β Harriet Tubman, as recorded in Sarah H. Bradford, Harriet: The Moses of Her People (1886)
19th Century