Booker T. Washington: “Without hesitation he gave me his personal check for all the money which he had saved for his own use.”

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

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

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 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…