UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 13) by Booker T. Washington

I remembered that I had been a slave; that my early years had been spent in the lowest depths of poverty and ignorance, and that I had had little opportunity to prepare me for such a responsibility as this. It was only a few years before that time that any white man in the audience might have claimed me as his slave; and it was easily possible that some of my former owners might be present to hear me speak.

By Arthur Jacobs

Created Date 09.17.20

Last Updated 09.21.20

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