Booker T. Washington: “She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.”

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.

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

I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.

The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.