Harriet Tubman

“Harriet Tubman never said this”

“but offers no citation. No source from earlier than 1993 is known. Quoted in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999) by Henry Louis Gates and Kwame Anthony Appiah, p. 299. Tubman specialists like Jean H. Humez and Kate Clifford Larson deem this one completely spurious. See”

“The phrase " Liberty or Death " is a slogan made famous during the independence struggle of several countries.”

“Oh, Lord! You've been wid me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh! Modernized rendition: Oh, Lord! You've been with me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh!”

“I knew of a man who was sent to the State Prison for twenty”

“Modernized rendition: 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 was in heaven.”

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

“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say”

“I can't die but once. As quoted in The Underground Railroad (1987) by Charles L. Blockson”

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