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Quotation from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
“But now I’m a free man, standing on God’s free soil; and my wife and my child I claim as mine.”
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter XVII (Project Gutenberg #203)
From the rocks where his family has taken refuge, George answers the slave-catchers who call him property.
Citation: "But now I’m a free man, standing on God’s free soil; and my wife and my child I claim as mine." — Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter XVII (Project Gutenberg #203). (id uncle-toms-cabin-q1)
Virtues: Fortitude
Portrait: Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Public domain.
