Booker T. Washington: “Somehow I like, as often as possible, to touch nature, not something that is artificial or an imitation, but the real…”

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

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…