Booker T. Washington: “No man whose vision is bounded by colour can come into contact with what is highest and best in the world.”

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.

Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.