Road To Freedom | Elizabeth Freeman’s Journey Out Of Slavery – Bett vs. Ashley

“Any time, any time while I was a slave, if one minute’s freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it—just to stand one minute on God’s earth a free woman— I would.”

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