Booker T. Washington: “Don't think that you are too good to help them.”

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…

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.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

These discussions showed that they understood the situation, and that they kept themselves informed of events by what was termed the “grape-vine” telegraph.