Booker T. Washington: “That is a great mistake, because nobody understands them, and they do not understand themselves.”

Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.

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…

When freedom came, the slaves were almost as well fitted to begin life anew as the master, except in the matter of book-learning and ownership of property.

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.