Booker T. Washington: “The “calls” to preach, I am glad to say, are not nearly so numerous now as they were formerly, and the calls to some…”

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.

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.

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.