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“There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have de oder; for no man should take me alive.”

As reported by Sarah H. Bradford · Harriet, the Moses of Her People (1886), p. 29

Context Recalling her 1849 escape from slavery in Maryland, she told her biographer Sarah Bradford of the resolve with which she set out for the North.

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Harriet TubmanUnited States · 1822–1913
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