In all our difficulties and anxieties, however, I never went to a white or a black person in the town of Tuskegee for any assistance that was in their power to render, without being helped according to their means.
Washington recounts the consistent support he received from both Black and white residents of Tuskegee during the school's early financial struggles.
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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.
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.
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.