Booker T. Washington: “We want you not to think of yourselves alone.”

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

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

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…

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.