Booker T. Washington: “Ever since then I have had no patience with any school for my race in the South which did not teach its students the…”

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.

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

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…