Booker T. Washington: “Don't think that you are too good to help them.”

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

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.

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.