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Elizabeth Freeman
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“Any time while I was a slave, if one minute's freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told that 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.”
Elizabeth Freeman (1744–1829) said by 1829 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in Douglas R. Egerton, ed., Death or Liberty: African Americans in Revolutionary America (Oxford University Press: 2009), p. 171