Booker T. Washington: “I do not, however, want you to get the idea that collars make the man.”

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.

Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution.

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.