Booker T. Washington: “I do not believe that any person is educated so long as he lives in a dirty, miserable shanty.”

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

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.