1 My mother was the plantation cook.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 2 Sometimes we had food cooked for us, and sometimes we did not.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. 3 The girls were not taught to cook, sew, or to take care of the house.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 4 It was pretty hard to cook, however, without stoves, and awkward to eat without dishes.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter X. 5 At times I have eaten in cabins where they had only corn bread and "black-eye peas" cooked in plain water.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. 6 This they did, and in a few weeks we had a place to cook and eat in, although it was very rough and uncomfortable.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter X. 7 At first the cooking was done out-of-doors, in the old-fashioned, primitive style, in pots and skillets placed over a fire.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter X. 8 We were several weeks making the trip, and most of the time we slept in the open air and did our cooking over a log fire out-of-doors.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 9 One of my earliest recollections is that of my mother cooking a chicken late at night, and awakening her children for the purpose of feeding them.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 10 One night I recall that we camped near an abandoned log cabin, and my mother decided to build a fire in that for cooking, and afterward to make a "pallet" on the floor for our sleeping.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 11 As an example, we showed the old method of dairying in contrast with the improved methods, the old methods of tilling the soil in contrast with the new, the old methods of cooking and housekeeping in contrast with the new.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII. 12 When a Negro girl learns to cook, to wash dishes, to sew, or write a book, or a Negro boy learns to groom horses, or to grow sweet potatoes, or to produce butter, or to build a house, or to be able to practise medicine, as well or better than some one else, they will be rewarded regardless of race or colour.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI.