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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 over everything, de sun came like gold trou de trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.”

— Harriet Tubman

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: Harriet Tubman
Type
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Context

On realizing that she had passed out of the slavery states into the northern states

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Tubman, Harriet. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Harriet Tubman. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman

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