Booker T. Washington: “Now, I repeat, it is the wise individual who prepares himself beforehand for the day of difficulties, for the day of…”

Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.

I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.

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