The

The I've got a babe, but shall I keep him?

It will come the day when I'll be weeping,

But how can I love him any less?

This little babe upon my brain of him in eat less

This little babe upon my breast

You can take my body, you can take my bones, You can take my blood but not my soul

You can take my body, you can take my bones, you can take my blood, but not my soul.

Hello there. I'm Tanner Latham, the executive producer for following Harriet. First off, thank you so

much for listening to this series. If you've enjoyed

it, please share it. And go and rate it and comment on it wherever you're listening.

Those ratings and those comments are some of the best ways to help other people discover the

podcast. Thank you so much for doing that. So anyway, we've got a bonus episode here

for you that is a condensed version of our interview with musician, artist, and activist

Rianan Giddens. She's a Grammy winner, and you might know her as a founding member of the

band Carolina Chocolate Drops. If you don't know her music,

go find it immediately on Spotify or wherever you get your music these days. At any rate, as we

were researching this whole Harriet Tubman project and really examining the experience of African

Americans in the 19th century, we discovered Riannon's song at the purchasers option.

You heard the beginning of the tune at the top of this episode, and we'll play the full song later.

Now, Riannon was inspired to write this song after seeing an advertisement where a man was

attempting to sell a young woman he had enslaved. The end of the ad

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