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e Swords No one freed Harriet Tubman from slavery, certainly not Abraham Lincoln. No one freed the man inside a coffin traveling days in the bumpy dark of a wagon. No one freed the hunted thousands from the belly of the dragon or broke its teeth to make a door, no one except the people the hunter was searching for— the white hot hate like a beast ascending from the forest floor.  No one freed Harriet Tubman but her own ingenuity and her everyday bravery, which was a sword flashing most everywhere as far as she could see.  ...

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