Booker T. Washington: “He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that…”

As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…

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.

I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.

I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.