Booker T. Washington: “I was determined to say nothing that I did not feel from the bottom of my heart to be true and right.”

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.

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.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.