Harriet Tubman (c.1820-March 10, 1913) was a former slave. She repeatedly risked her life to free over 300 slaves through what has become known as the Underground Railroad. After the Civil War, she helped set up schools for freed slaves. Harriet Tubman stated:
<I always told God: I'm gwine to hole stiddy on to you, and you got to see me trou...Jes so long as He wants to use me, He'll tak ker of me, and when He don't want me any longer, I'm ready to go.> 1820HT001
To her biographer, Sarah H. Bradford, Harriet Tubman related in 1868:
<'Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, "I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me," and he always did.> 1820HT002
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Endnotes:
1820HT001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Harriet Tubman. Page Smith, The Nation Comes of Age (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1981), Vol. 4, pp. 658-659. Peter Marshall and David Manuel, The Glory of America (Bloomington, MN: Garborg's Heart'N Home, Inc., 1991), 3.10.
1820HT002. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Harriet Tubman, 1868, to her biographer, Sarah H. Bradford. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 593.