Booker T. Washington: “You must so shape your lives that the hundreds and thousands of those who are looking to you for guidance may profit by…”

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.

I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.

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.