“Oh Lord, convert master! Oh Lord, change dat man's heart!' …Oh Lord, if you ant nebber gwine to change dat man's heart, kill him, Lord, an' take him out ob de way.” - - Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman by Sarah H. Bradford (1869)
[same quote with less dialect]
“Oh Lord, convert master! Oh Lord, change dat man's heart!' …Oh Lord, if you aint never gon’ to change dat man's heart, kill him, Lord, an' take him out of the way.”
“I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more if they had known they were slaves.”
“The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.”
“I started with this idea in my head, "there's two things I've got a right to...death or liberty.”
“I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Now that I've been free, I know what dreadful condition slavery is.”
“I never ran my train off the track. And I never lost a passenger.”
2 comments:
It is remarkable, rather useful piece
Yes you the storyteller
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