Booker T. Washington: “He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that…”

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.

Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.

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