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" There was such a glory over everything."

By Chip Cain | Published February 11, 2008
When I found I had crossed that line, [on her first escape from slavery, 1845] I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.

– Harriet Tubman (1820?-1913) to her biographer, Sarah H. Bradford, c. 1868

Don’t forget February is Black History Month.

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