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Frances Harper "We Are All Bound Up Together" (1866)
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We have a woman in our country who has received the name of "Moses," not by lying about it, but by acting out -a woman who has gone down into the Egypt of slavery and brought out hundreds of our people into liberty. The last time I saw that woman, her hands were swollen. That woman who had led one of Montgomery's most successful expeditions, who was brave enough and secretive enough to act as a scout for the American army, had her hands all swollen from a conflict with a brutal conductor, who undertook to eject her from her place. That woman, whose courage and bravery won a recognition from our army and from every black man in the land, is excluded from every thoroughfare of travel.

— Frances Harper "We Are All Bound Up Together"

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "We have a woman in our country who has received the name of "Moses," not by lying about it, but by acting out -a woman who has gone down into the Egypt of slavery and brought out hundreds of our people into liberty. The last time I saw that woman, her hands were swollen. That woman who had led one of Montgomery's most successful expeditions, who was brave enough and secretive enough to act as a scout for the American army, had her hands all swollen from a conflict with a brutal conductor, who undertook to eject her from her place. That woman, whose courage and bravery won a recognition from our army and from every black man in the land, is excluded from every thoroughfare of travel." in the context of "Frances Harper "We Are All Bound Up Together" (1866)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Harriet Tubman

About Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman (c. March 1822 – 10 March 1913), also known as Moses, was an African-American abolitionist.

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