On the recordJanuary 1, 1901
They unconsciously had imbibed the feeling that manual labour was not the proper thing for them.
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Booker T. Washington
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gutenberg.orgBooker T. Washington: “They unconsciously had imbibed the feeling that manual labour was not the proper thing for them.”
Editor's note · Context
From his autobiography, explaining how slave owners and their children developed an ingrained aversion to manual labor due to the social structure of slavery.
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