Booker T. Washington: “Any man will lose respect for a girl who abuses herself in this way.”

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.

This tenderness and sympathy on the part of those held in bondage was a result of their kindly and generous nature.

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

As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…