I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!
'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.
You'll be free or die!
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
I can't die but once.
Never wound a snake; kill it.
I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.
I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'
Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other.
