"Every time I saw a white man, I was afraid of being carried away."

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

"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…"

"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."

"I was nothing but a poor old woman; but I knew how to pray, and I knew how to work."