Booker T. Washington: “White boys and even men have opened shops which they have fitted up with carpets, pictures, mirrors, and comfortable…”

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.

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.

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

Ever since I have been old enough to think for myself, I have entertained the idea that, notwithstanding the cruel wrongs inflicted upon us, the black man got nearly as much out of slavery as the white man did.