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21 " Years later Tubman likened her decision to an epiphany: “I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”40 "
― , Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
22 " 1857 Dred Scott decision, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were not guaranteed rights as citizens and that slave status could not be outlawed by any state government. "
23 " Official military reports credited Montgomery with the Combahee River Raid’s triumph, yet soldiers recognized this victory as Harriet Tubman’s. "
24 " Even if a slave woman became pregnant by another man because of rape, there is evidence that some black men were unwilling to be understanding of the situation. "
25 " Douglass’s hesitation was understandable. His own letters and speeches were consistently full of retribution and bloodshed, but Douglass never actually participated in any such activities. "
26 " told someone that the slave had disappeared so quickly that he “must have gone on an underground road.” Allegedly this was the origin of the nickname Underground Railroad.1 "
27 " When her voice is forever stilled, her soul, like the soul of him whom she calls her dearest friend, will later be ‘marching on. "
28 " Lincoln entered the war without any intention of freeing the slaves. Lincoln would even propose colonization for free blacks. 21 At the outset of the war, restoring the Union was Lincoln’s primary goal. "
29 " Suffragist Susan B. Anthony introduced her as a living legend at the twenty-eighth annual convention of the New York State Women’s Suffrage Association, held in 1904. "