Booker T. Washington: “To wear one suit of clothes continually, while at work and in the schoolroom, and at the same time keep it clean, was…”

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.

From any point of view, I had rather be what I am, a member of the Negro race, than be able to claim membership with the most favoured of any other race.

In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.