As I now recall the scene of my first year, I do not believe that one often has the opportunity of coming into contact with three or four hundred men and women who were so tremendously in earnest as these men and women were.
Reflecting on his first year at Hampton Institute, Washington describes the profound dedication of his fellow students.
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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…
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.
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