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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.

Source: In Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People, by Sarah H. Bradford, 1886.
-- Harriet Tubman, ( c.1820-1913), US abolitionist, emancipator; Moses of Her People escaped slavery at the age 25, but returned to the South 19 times to spirit 300 people to Canada on the Underground Railroad.

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