BookerT.Washington-GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology.pptVIP

It was a very large plantation, and all the buildings were substantial and commodious, except the negro-cabins, which were the smallest I had seen-I thought not more than twelve feet square interiorly. They stood in two rows, with a wide street between them. They were built of logs, with no windows-no opening at all, except the doorway, with no trees about them, or porches, or shades of any kind.  /imgres?imgurl=http://www.civilization.ca/hist/cadeau/images/vicso02b.jpgimgrefurl=http://www.civilization.ca/hist/cadeau/cavic01e.htmlh=270w=502sz=20tbnid=SCeeM9XYvDi89M:tbnh=68tbnw=127hl=enstart=4prev=/images%3Fq%3Dvictorian%2Bdinner%2Btable%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dopera%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DG Victorian Place Setting Booker T. Washington I cannot recall “a single instance during my childhood” when my family “ate a meal in a civilized manner.” “meals were gotten by the children very much as dumb animals get theirs” Random scraps for children, perhaps a “tin plate held on the knees” for adults. Frederick Douglass A slave child “is never chided for handling his little knife and fork improperly or awkwardly, for he uses none. He is never reprimanded for soiling the tablecloth, for he takes his meals on the clay floor” “The children were called, like so many pigs; and like so many pigs they would come.” “He is never expected to act like a nice little gentleman, for he is only a rude little slave.” As a child, he ate from a wooden trough with an oyster shell. ...coarse gray gowns, generally very much burned and dirty; which, for greater convenience of working in the mud, were reefed up with a cord drawn tightly about the body, a little above the hips-the spare amount of skirt bagging out between this and the waist proper. On their legs were loose leggins or pieces of blanket or bagging wrapped about, and lashed with thongs; and they wore very heavy shoes. Most of them had handkerchiefs, only, tied around their heads; some wore mens caps, or old slouch