Severe competition and the great stress of life have led them to learn to do things more thoroughly and to exercise greater economy; but time, I think, will bring my race to the same point.
Washington observes that competition has driven others to improve their skills, which he believes his race will also achieve over time.
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Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.
He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.
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.
I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.