Booker T.Washington

The slave system on our place, in a large measure, took the spirit of self-reliance and self-help out of the white people.

most trying ordeal that I was forced to endure as a slave boy, however, was the wearing of a flax shirt.

gotten by the children very much as dumb animals get theirs.

These were the questions of a home, a living, the rearing of children, education, citizenship, and the establishment and support of churches.

great ambition of the older people was to try to learn to read the Bible before they died

secure and eat ginger-cakes in