The Slavery System on Our Place

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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery. I've long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction and besides it was recognized and protected for years by the general government. It's like okay. This is this is how it was How do I move forward? He continues to say ever since I have been old enough to think for myself he has entertained the idea that notwithstanding the cruel wrongs inflicted upon us The black man got nearly as much out of slavery as the white

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915)^[1] was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary black elite.^[2] Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.