biography | 1886
Harriet Tubman, The Moses of Her People
“It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.” Sojourner Truth famed orator + civil rights leader
“It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.”
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the original text | Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People | page 29
Harriet's biographer Sarah seems to have significantly revised the direct quote from Harriet in the second edition of her biography...
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Sarah H. Bradford | Harriet, the Moses of Her People (1901)
Cover from a 1901 reprint of the second edition of Sarah's biography of Harriet.
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