“I prayed all night long for my master. Till the first of Mar…”

“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. I changed my prayer. First of March I began to pray, 'Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the way'.”

— Harriet Tubman

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Title: Wikiquote: Harriet Tubman
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Context

As quoted in Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1971), by Sarah Hopkins Bradford, Freeport: Books for Libraries Press, pp. 14-15.

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

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