HAMPTON in Classic Quotes

1  Finally the great day came, and I started for Hampton.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

2  The distance from Malden to Hampton is about five hundred miles.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

3  After hearing of the Hampton Institute, I continued to work for a few months longer in the coal-mine.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

4  Notwithstanding my success at Mrs. Ruffner's I did not give up the idea of going to the Hampton Institute.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
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5  Without any unusual occurrence I reached Hampton, with a surplus of exactly fifty cents with which to begin my education.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

6  My whole soul was so bent upon reaching Hampton that I did not have time to cherish any bitterness toward the hotel-keeper.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

7  I cannot now recall how long I lived with Mrs. Ruffner before going to Hampton, but I think it must have been a year and a half.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

8  After buying food with the small wages I received there was not much left to add on the amount I must get to pay my way to Hampton.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

9  I had not been away from home many hours before it began to grow painfully evident that I did not have enough money to pay my fare to Hampton.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

10  As soon as possible after reaching the grounds of the Hampton Institute, I presented myself before the head teacher for an assignment to a class.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

11  My own experiences in the night-school gave me faith in the night-school idea, with which, in after years, I had to do both at Hampton and Tuskegee.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

12  When I had saved what I considered enough money with which to reach Hampton, I thanked the captain of the vessel for his kindness, and started again.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

13  Perhaps the thing that touched and pleased me most in connection with my starting for Hampton was the interest that many of the older coloured people took in the matter.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

14  By walking, begging rides both in wagons and in the cars, in some way, after a number of days, I reached the city of Richmond, Virginia, about eighty-two miles from Hampton.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

15  In order to economize in every way possible, so as to be sure to reach Hampton in a reasonable time, I continued to sleep under the same sidewalk that gave me shelter the first night I was in Richmond.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

16  I resolved at once to go to that school, although I had no idea where it was, or how many miles away, or how I was going to reach it; I remembered only that I was on fire constantly with one ambition, and that was to go to Hampton.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

17  As they went on describing the school, it seemed to me that it must be the greatest place on earth, and not even Heaven presented more attractions for me at that time than did the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, about which these men were talking.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.