Booker T. Washington: “Our people in the South will prosper in proportion as a larger number of university men take up agriculture and kindred…”

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

This tenderness and sympathy on the part of those held in bondage was a result of their kindly and generous nature.

Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.