Harriet Tubman — "I had rather be a freeman than a slave."

"I said to the Lord, 'I'm going to hold steady on to you, and I know you'll see me through.'"

"I was born a slave, and I was born in Maryland."

"I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land."

"I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I wa…"

"I prayed all night long for my master till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me."