From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T Washington
From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T Washington
Pike Godfrey Holden
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Only those who know how the negro cleaves to all the dear, familiar things of life, how fond he is of life and friendliness, can conceive the physical and mental shock that this introduction to new conditions meant to them. To people of our own race it would have meant death. But these wonderful folk appear to have withstood the trials of their deportation in a marvellous way. They showed no particular liability to disease. Their longevity or period of usefulness was not diminished, or their fe...cundity UPS AND DOWNS 59 obviously impaired. So far as I have been able to learn, nostalgia was not a source of mortality, as it would have been with any Aryan population. The price they brought in the market and the satisfaction of their purchasers with their qualities show that they were from the first almost ideal -labourers. " When Booker Washington took up his residence in the town which the first President of the United States called the Federal City, but which was des- tined to take the name of that great patriot him- self, a large number of negroes were found there.
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