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In Memoriam
Harriet Tubman
(abolitionist, ex-slave)
d3/10/1913 (b~1821)
One night I dreamed I was in slav'ry.
'Bout eighteen fifty was the time.
Sorrow was the only sign,
Nothing aroung to ease me mind.
Out of the night appeared a lady
Leading a distant pilgrim band
"Harriet Tubman," by Walter Robinson; © 1978; in Seeger, Carry It On
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