Booker T. Washington: “While the students are at work upon the land and in erecting buildings, they are taught, by competent instructors, the…”

I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.

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

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

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.