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.” “I was free,” she recalled, “but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. The future Underground Railroad conductor’s next thoughts were of her family. There was such a glory over everything the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven.” As she later told biographer Sarah Bradford, after crossing the Pennsylvania state boundary line in September 1849, “I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. Harriet Tubman’s first act as a free woman was poignantly simple.
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