“I bring you one of the best and bravest persons on this continent — General Tubman as we call her.”

—  John Brown (abolitionist)

Introducing Harriet Tubman to Wendell Phillips, as quoted in The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom (1898) by Wilbur Henry Siebert, p. 185 also in "The Underground Railway" (27 May 1902) by W. H. Withrow, as published in Proceedings

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