I resolved at once to go to that school, although I had no idea where it was, or how many miles away, or how I was going to reach it; I remembered only that I was on fire constantly with one ambition, and that was to go to Hampton.
Washington recounts his immediate and unwavering decision to attend Hampton Institute, despite lacking practical knowledge of how to get there.
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He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.
No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.
In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.