Booker T. Washington: “When you make yourself master of these humble positions, you will find that the calls to higher places will come to you.”

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

This tenderness and sympathy on the part of those held in bondage was a result of their kindly and generous nature.

Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.

Ever since I have been old enough to think for myself, I have entertained the idea that, notwithstanding the cruel wrongs inflicted upon us, the black man got nearly as much out of slavery as the white man did.