Booker T. Washington: “The improvement that has taken place in the character of the teachers is even more marked than in the case of the…”

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.

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.

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

Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.