“O, that I were free! God save me, I will run away. Get caught or get clear. I had as well be killed running as die standing.”
- Escaped slave
Source: Eyewitnesses to the Civil War, National Geographic (p. 44)
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“O, that I were free! God save me, I will run away. Get caught or get clear. I had as well be killed running as die standing.”
- Escaped slave
Source: Eyewitnesses to the Civil War, National Geographic (p. 44)
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