Some folks heard about me, and how I was good at 
taking people away from slavery. I was able to 
connect with some quiet Quaker people, who helped 
me a lot when passing through to move on.  They 
would help us go to the next place where we could 
hide in the day. Their house was known as a "safe 
house."

Once we left a plantation, we travelled at night. 
I had found a gun that I always carried with me. 
I never had to use it, but I almost did. There 
was a man, who got scared when we left his 
master's place. We got out before the  overseer 
saw us, but that man got nervous, and shaking. 
He said that he wanted to go back. I was 
surprised that he said that he wanted to go back 
where he would be a slave, and where his family 
would be sold from him.  But he was just nervous, 
and scared of the trip.

I knew that he couldn't go back. If he did they 
would whip him till he told where we were hiding. 
So I took out my gun, and told him to get quiet 
and come. If he was not going to come, we did not 
want him to tell, so I told him that I would have 
to kill him. I was not going to let him tell the 
overseer where we were, because, the women, and 
children would have all been whipped.  I was 
surprised, because he got real quiet, and never 
made any noise after that. I was glad, because I 
never had to use that gun, and I never wanted to
hurt that man.  I got my people free, and went 
back 19 times to take my people to Freedom on the 
Underground Railroad.