Booker T. Washington: “I advise you, then, to go into the country and the towns, rather than into the cities.”

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.

These discussions showed that they understood the situation, and that they kept themselves informed of events by what was termed the “grape-vine” telegraph.

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