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1  Cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service, and in the professions.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV.
2  We learned that about eighty-five per cent of the coloured people in the Gulf states depended upon agriculture for their living.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.
3  The thing that impressed itself most on me in Holland was the thoroughness of the agriculture and the excellence of the Holstein cattle.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI.
4  He had been able to do this by reason of his knowledge of the chemistry of the soil and by his knowledge of improved methods of agriculture.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.
5  We found that the most of our students came from the country districts, where agriculture in some form or other was the main dependence of the people.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.
6  From the very beginning, at Tuskegee, I was determined to have the students do not only the agricultural and domestic work, but to have them erect their own buildings.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.
7  Our next effort was in the direction of increasing the cultivation of the land, so as to secure some return from it, and at the same time give the students training in agriculture.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX.
8  Aside from these there are innumerable smaller meetings, such as that of the instructors in the Phelps Hall Bible Training School, or of the instructors in the agricultural department.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV.
9  While the students are at work upon the land and in erecting buildings, they are taught, by competent instructors, the latest methods of agriculture and the trades connected with building.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII.
10  In addition to the agricultural training which we give to young men, and the training given to our girls in all the usual domestic employments, we now train a number of girls in agriculture each year.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII.
11  In addition to the agricultural training which we give to young men, and the training given to our girls in all the usual domestic employments, we now train a number of girls in agriculture each year.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII.
12  He came to deliver an address at the formal opening of the Slater-Armstrong Agricultural Building, our first large building to be used for the purpose of giving training to our students in agriculture and kindred branches.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII.
13  Since this was true, we wanted to be careful not to educate our students out of sympathy with agricultural life, so that they would be attracted from the country to the cities, and yield to the temptation of trying to live by their wits.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.