The English servant expects, as a rule, to be nothing but a servant, and so he perfects himself in the art to a degree that no class of servants in America has yet reached.
Comparing labor attitudes between nations, Washington describes the distinct professional identity and skill of English servants.
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He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.
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…
I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.
The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.