" One Eastern Shore man recalled that his grandfather owned an African slave by the name of Suck and that his grandfather had purchased her from a “slave ship which had come up the Chesapeake Bay.” When he was a young boy, Suck told him that she had been a member of an African tribe that “was defeated in battle with another tribe and numbers of her people were captured” and sold to slave traders plying the African coast. "

― Kate Clifford Larson , Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero