"I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now that I was free. 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 wa…"

"The Lord told me to go, and I went. I ain't never been sorry."

"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; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for…"

"The good Lord will take care of me."

"I think slavery is the next thing to hell."