“Oh, Lord! You've been wid me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh!”

— Harriet Tubman

Modernized rendition: Oh, Lord! You've been with me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh!
1880s, Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886)

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African-American abolitionist and humanitarian 1820–1913

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