Frases de Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman, nacida como Araminta Ross , fue una luchadora por la libertad de los afroamericanos esclavizados en Estados Unidos. Tras escapar de la esclavitud, realizó trece misiones de rescate en las que liberó a cerca de setenta esclavos[1]​ utilizando la red antiesclavista conocida como ferrocarril subterráneo. Posteriormente ayudó a John Brown tras su toma del arsenal de Harpers Ferry, y tras la guerra luchó por conseguir el sufragio para las mujeres.

Nació en la esclavitud en el Condado de Dorchester, Maryland. Durante su niñez fue apaleada y golpeada con látigo por varios de sus propietarios. Siendo adolescente, sufrió una fuerte herida en la cabeza cuando uno de sus propietarios la alcanzó accidentalmente con un objeto pesado que había lanzado contra otro esclavo.[2]​ Como consecuencia de la herida, sufrió ataques cerebrovasculares, dolores de cabeza, visiones y episodios de hipersomnia a lo largo de toda su vida. Devota cristiana, atribuía sus visiones y sueños a premoniciones divinas.

En 1849, Tubman escapó a Filadelfia. Tras ello, regresó inmediatamente a Maryland para rescatar a su familia. Poco a poco, fue sacando del estado a sus diversos parientes, en ocasiones guiando personalmente a docenas de esclavos hacia la libertad. Viajando de noche y en extremo secreto, Tubman «nunca perdió un pasajero».[3]​ A lo largo de los años se ofrecieron diversas recompensas por la captura de los esclavos huidos, pero nunca se supo que Harriet era quien estaba ayudándolos. Cuando la Ley contra los esclavos fugitivos se aprobó en 1850, ayudó a muchos esclavos a huir hacia Canadá.[4]​

Rit, la madre de Harriet, luchó para mantener la familia unida pero la esclavitud lo impidió. Edgard Brodess vendió a tres de sus hermanas , separándolas de la familia para siempre.[5]​ Cuando un comerciante de Georgia propuso a los Brodess la compra del menor de los hijos de Rit , esta le escondió durante un mes ayudada por otros esclavos y negros libres de la comunidad,[6]​ e incluso llegó a enfrentarse directamente con su propietario por la venta.[7]​ Finalmente, cuando Brodess y el comerciante de Georgia fueron a los alojamientos de los esclavos para llevarse al niño, Rit les amenazó directamente con «abrirles la cabeza».[7]​ Brodess se retractó de su idea y abandonó la venta.[8]​ Los biógrafos de Tubman coinciden en la idea de que este episodio influyó directamente en ella haciéndola creer en sus posibilidades de rebelarse frente a la esclavitud.[8]​[9]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 1820 – 10. marzo 1913
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Harriet Tubman: Frases en inglés

“I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”

Attributed to Tubman in Dorothy Winbush Riley, My Soul Looks Back 'Less I Forget https://books.google.com/books?id=KpcLAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22c.+1865%22 p. 148 (1993). Riley gives a date of "c. 1865" but offers no citation. No source from earlier than 1993 is known. Quoted in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999) by Henry Louis Gates and Kwame Anthony Appiah, p. 299. Tubman specialists like Jean H. Humez and Kate Clifford Larson deem this one completely spurious. See "Bogus Tubman," by Steve Perisho http://liberlocorumcommunium.blogspot.com/2014/03/bogus-tubman-i-freed-thousands-of.html.<!-- Someone cited this as being in Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886) by Sarah H. Bradford, but it does not occur in the editions available online. -->
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Variante: I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.

“I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.”

Modernized rendition: I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
The phrase "" is a slogan made famous during the independence struggle of several countries.
1880s, Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886)
Variante: There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would take the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for liberty as long as my strength lasted.
Contexto: I had reasoned dis out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have de oder; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when de time came for me to go, de Lord would let dem take me.

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

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)

“Children, if you are tired, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going.”

"Harriet Tubman never said this — it comes from one of the scores of juvenile Harriet Tubman fictionalized biographies." — Kate Larson, Harriet Tubman biographer.
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“I looked at my hands, to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory over everything, de sun came like gold trou de trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.”

On realizing that she had passed out of the slavery states into the northern states
Modernized rendition: I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.
1880s, Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886)

“I love all of the african americans like they are my children.”

"African american" seems an ananchronistic term here, as the term was seldom used before the 1970s.
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“I can't die but once.”

As quoted in The Underground Railroad (1987) by Charles L. Blockson

“I had reasoned dis out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have de oder; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when de time came for me to go, de Lord would let dem take me.”

Modernized rendition: I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
The phrase "Liberty or Death" is a slogan made famous during the independence struggle of several countries.
1880s, Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886)

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