Harriet Tubman quote on freedom

So it was with me. I had crossed the line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land, and my home after all was down in the old cabin quarter, with the old folks, and my brothers and sisters. But to this solemn resolution I came; I was free, and they should be free also; I would make a home for them in the North, and the Lord helping me, I would bring them all there.”

Harriet Tubman portrait
Harriet Tubman

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“Harriet Tubman quote on freedom” sources:  

Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886) by Sarah Hopkins Bradford / Harriet Tubman Wikiquote / Portrait of Harriet taken circa 1868 by Benjamin F. Powelson / Wikimedia Commons