Booker T. Washington: “There are no meetings with our students that I enjoy more than these, and none are more helpful to me in planning for…”

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…

Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.