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Painting of Harriet TubmanHarriet Tubman was a run away slave who made it her personal mission to goes back into slave territory and lead other slaves to freedom. The following poem is a tribute to her journey.

 Harriet Tubman by Eloise Greenfield

Harriet Tubman didn't take no stuff

Wasn't scared of nothing neither

Didn't come in this world to be a slave

And wasn't going to stay one neither 

 

"Farewell!" she sang to her friends one night

she was mighty sad to leave 'em 

But she ran away that dark, hot night

Ran lookin' for her freedom

She ran to the woods and  sheran through the woods 

With the slave satchers right behind her

And she kept on going till she got to the North 

Wher those mean men couldn't find her

 

Nineteen she went back to the South

To get three hundred other 

She ran for her freedom nineteen times 

To save the Black sisters and brothers

Harriet Tubman didn't take no stuff

Wasn't scared of nothing neither

Didn't come in this world to be a slave

And didn't stay one neither

And didn't stay one neither