Far in the distance, moving quickly,

came the patter rollers

bloodhounds loping, silent.


Minutes before, one of the fleeing band had fallen,

the others for a moment waited

but he did not rise.

A small dark woman stood above him.

His words were slow to come and more a groan:


Can't make it, just can't make it

You all go head without me.


Moses pulled out her revolver and she quietly said:


Move or die.


You ain't stopping now

You can't stop now

You gonna move

move or die.


If you won't go on

Gonna risk us all –

Ahma send your soul to glory, I said move! . . . .


Get on up now


That's it, no need a getting weary

There is a glory there!


—"Harriet Tubman aka Moses,"

Samuel Allen


Which statement about the poem’s speaker is true?


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