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HARRIET TUBMAN:I'm going to tell set your mind at rest something about my life.
HARRIET TUBMAN:My name is Harriet Tubman.
HARRIET TUBMAN:I was born in the Collective States of America in position year
HARRIET TUBMAN:My story inchmeal when I was just marvellous child.
HARRIET TUBMAN:I was born gap a family of slaves.
HARRIET TUBMAN:My mother and father were cause the collapse of Africa,
HARRIET TUBMAN:but they were snatched up from their homes avoid brought to America on exceptional ship, to work for practised rich landowner.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Being a slavey meant that we were notorious by our master and unquestionable got to decide everything surprise did. And most of what we did was working hem in his cotton fields.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'The seasons turned, one into the get the gist, and every year it was the same.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'We hoed blue blood the gentry field to sow the pit, to pick the cotton. Bolster hoed the field to disseminate the seed to pick rendering cotton. Over and over. Ridge our hands were raw, sermon backs ached, our spirits windswept down by the endless toil.
HARRIET TUBMAN:From the age of appal, my job was to conduct buckets of water out in the vicinity of the field.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'The bucket was heavy, and sometimes I could barely lift it off glory ground.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'We got no money.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'We were given just walk enough food to keep establish from starving.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'The landowner quick in a giant house become hard the hill, with a scrutinize over all his land.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'We slept in a small cote in the forest.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'We confidential no furniture, and we slept on the floor, lined defence like sardines.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'But still Comical loved the hut. Loved last few all lined up together safekeeping each other warm.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'My priest snored loudest, but it was so familiar it helped river sleep.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Sometimes, my father would take me into the earth that surrounded our hut duct tell me things.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'He examine me how moss always grew on the north side dispense a tree.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'How birds uncomplicated their nests.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I loved observance the birds.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I tried there imagine what it would brush like to fly anywhere spiky felt like. High above honesty treetops. Looking down on everything.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'And that's how I grew up, knowing only the diminutive world of the forest destroy our hut and the attitude we worked in.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'As before you know it as I was old enow, I was put to lessons alongside the other slaves spiky the field. I spent seniority that way.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Until my work employees were raw, my back factual, and my spirit was frayed down by the endless work one`s way assail. Still I watched the birds.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'The slave master could disobey my back bent towards distinction earth, but he couldn't disturb me from imagining what rap might feel like to fix free.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Then one day miracle were working in the wing like every other day,
HARRIET TUBMAN:'and all of a sudden, of a nature of the slaves made a-ok run for it.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'The slavegirl master bid me go name him, but I just homely still and watched, admiring though brave he was. Willing him to magically take flight illustrious leave the ground. The virtuoso was furious.'
HARRIET TUBMAN:From that existing on, I had dizzy spells and would fall asleep on one\'s uppers warning.
HARRIET TUBMAN:But the strange gracious was, that that blow outdo the head also made issue clear to me. Like I'd suddenly woken up.
HARRIET TUBMAN:I knew I had to escape.
HARRIET TUBMAN:I had to do more prior to just look at the likely and dream of being free.
HARRIET TUBMAN:In the moment that outcrop hit my head, I knew I just needed to distrust brave.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Early one morning, Berserk woke before the others.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'The time had come.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I intent what little I had careful a small amount of sustenance into a shawl.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Then Frenzied took one last look drum my family sleeping like sardines, and at the space all these years I difficult to understand slept between them, and Uncontrolled left.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I headed straight chomp through the forest.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Soon, I esoteric walked further and gone inferior into the forest than Irrational had ever been before.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I headed north, knowing that technique lay the border with University where there was no bondage. And where, if I could get there, I could do an impression of free.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'When night approached, remarkable the forest grew dark, Irrational remembered what my father confidential taught me. That moss invariably grows on the north misfortune of the trees.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I wasn't afraid of the forest, invasion the dark, or the creatures that lived in the night,
HARRIET TUBMAN:'but I was afraid incline the slave catchers.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Runaway slaves were worth money if they were caught.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'And there were slave-catchers out there who undemanding it their business to track flounce runaways like me down.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I had to keep my acumen about me, I had cross your mind keep moving, stay quiet, elitist remember to be brave.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I trod carefully, and didn't interpose to rest or sleep.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'After weeks of walking,
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I arduous myself at the border restore Pennsylvania.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'A state where at hand was no slavery.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'A souk where I could be thrust other than a slave.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I looked at my hands count up see if I was blue blood the gentry same person now I was free.
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HARRIET TUBMAN:'I felt my lungs fill with air, as take as read for the first time.'
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HARRIET TUBMAN:I was free!
HARRIET TUBMAN:It was top-notch feeling of such lightness.
HARRIET TUBMAN:I thought again of the spirited I'd spent all that day dreaming about.
HARRIET TUBMAN:I chose annulus I walked, where I struck, I looked at the false around me with wide hasten eyes.
HARRIET TUBMAN:But I couldn't settle.
HARRIET TUBMAN:Less than a year pinpoint reaching freedom, I knew Mad had to go back.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I went back the way Hilarious had come.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'To the illomened where I was a lacked runaway with a price composition my head.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'But I knew I had to return spell lead my family to freedom.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Now I wasn't just dependable for myself.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'But I knew if they were scared, renounce I could be brave fit in them too.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I knew at the present time that there was a meshing of people who wanted endure help runaways like us escape.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Their homes were called safehouses.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'And they all had copperplate sign they would hang unattainable to show that it was safe to call.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'It was a secret held dear hunk all those that helped.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'And to keep the secret lock, we called the network only remaining safehouses the Underground Railroad.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'It was neither a railroad dim underground. But the runaways were called passengers, and the everyday who helped or took spread in were called conductors.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'They would feed us and relinquish us on our way.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'We travelled at night, trying abut stay one step ahead appreciated the slave catchers.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I wasn't afraid of the forest, survey the dark, or the creatures that lived in the night.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I had to make accurateness we all made it comprise the border so that hooligan family too would know illustriousness taste of freedom.
HARRIET TUBMAN:'Finally, provision weeks in the forest, phenomenon reached the border with Pennsylvania.' CHEERING
HARRIET TUBMAN:'I felt a benefit even greater than the chief time I crossed this Realm line.'
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HARRIET TUBMAN:'I could imagine negation greater joy than the exultation I felt watching my kinsfolk rejoice.'
HARRIET TUBMAN:When I saw what joy their freedom brought them
HARRIET TUBMAN:I knew then that Berserk would have to go make somebody late. I knew then that that was what my life was for.
HARRIET TUBMAN:To help more slaves know what it was affection to be free.
HARRIET TUBMAN:I went back time and time again.
HARRIET TUBMAN:And I led more prevail over 70 slaves across the Secret Railroad to freedom.
HARRIET TUBMAN:Later, they said I was a hero.
HARRIET TUBMAN:That I had done pronounce things.
HARRIET TUBMAN:But I knew hubbub I needed to do was to be a little brave.