I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there. But I was free, and they should be free.

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"If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more."

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"I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven."

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"I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have."

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