Booker T. Washington: “Those of you here who are going to go into business after you leave school do not want to have any such earmarks about…”

Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution.

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

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.