Booker T. Washington: “When I see how well he does his work here, notwithstanding the fact that he is shut up here in prison, I believe that he…”

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.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

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.

This tenderness and sympathy on the part of those held in bondage was a result of their kindly and generous nature.