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By Sojourner Truth
Why, I felt so tall within—I felt as if the power of a nation was with me!
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- Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828, 1850 · p. 45
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- Boston: Printed for the author (J. B. Yerrinton and Son), as told to Olive Gilbert
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Truth's own later account of how she felt when she told her mistress she would get her son back. Olive Gilbert wrote it down from Truth in the Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Boston, 1850), where it appears in single quotation marks.