The money which you would give would not only supply the building, but the erection of the building would give a large number of students an opportunity to learn the building trades, and the students would use the money paid to them to keep themselves in school.
In his autobiography, this passage details the practical and educational benefits of a proposed library building project at Tuskegee.
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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.
I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…
As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.