Booker T. Washington: “I am made to feel just as happy now when I am rendering service to Southern white men as when the service is rendered to…”

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

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.

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.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.