Booker T. Washington: “This is the great lesson which the entire South must learn before it can hope to receive the respect and confidence of…”

Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution.

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.

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.

I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.