"Harriet Tubman, like John Mason, did not reckon the value of her own liberty in comparison with the liberty of others who had not tasted its sweets. Like him, she saw in the oppression of her race the sufferings of the enslaved Israelites, and was not slow to demand that the Pharaoh of the South should let her people go. She was known to many of the anti-slavery leaders of her generation; her personality and her power were such that none of them ever forgot the high virtues of this simple black woman."
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Wilbur Henry Siebert in The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom (1898), p. 185
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Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (c. March 1822 – 10 March 1913), also known as Moses, was an African-American abolitionist.
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