Booker T. Washington: “Perhaps the thing that touched and pleased me most in connection with my starting for Hampton was the interest that many…”

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

I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.