Booker T. Washington: “Now if any of you have a temper that often gets to be your master, make up your mind that it is a part of your duty here…”

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.

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.

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…

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