Booker T. Washington: “Notwithstanding his affliction, he worked almost constantly night and day for the cause to which he had given his life.”

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…

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

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

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.