Wednesday, May 1, 2013

I appreciate you as a friend and for standing up for all the slaves and rescuing a ton of them. Our history wouldn't be the same if you didn't do that. So thanks allot for every thing you did!
In her later years Harriet Tubman attend meetings of suffragist organizations where she met women such as Susan B. Anthony and Emily Howland.
John Brown:
(Harriett) was "one of the bravest persons on this continent."

Frederick Douglass:
"Excepting John Brown...I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardship to serve our enslaved people..."


Thomas Garrett:
"I never met any person of any color who had more confidence in the voice of God"

Thomas Wentworth Higginson
"Her tales of adventure are beyond anything in fiction and her ingenuity and generalship are extraordinary."

Wilber Henry Siebert
"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."





I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves
Abolitionist Senator William H. Seward sold me a small piece of land on the outskirts of Auburn, New York. This land became a haven for my family.
I took part in antislavery meetings. On the way to a meeting in Boston in 1860, I helped a slave who had been captured.