We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain fa...lling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say--I never ran my trai...n off the track and I never lost a passenger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would take de oder; for no man sho...uld take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when de time came for me to go, de Lord would let dem take me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom. I... was a stranger in a strange land, and my home after all was down in de old cabin quarter, wid de ole folks, and my brudders and sisters. But to dis solemn resolution I came; I was free, and dey should be free also; I would make a home for dem in de North, and de Lord helping me, I would bring dem all dere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »