1 This is rather a difficult question to answer.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XV. 2 The problem of providing mattresses was a difficult one to solve.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XI. 3 In the first place, the work was hard and dirty, and it was difficult to get the students to help.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter X. 4 The failure of this kiln made it still more difficult to get the students to take part in the work.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter X. 5 It was difficult for these people to see how education would produce any other kind of a coloured man.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 6 I received so many and such hearty congratulations that I found it difficult to get out of the building.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIV. 7 Naturally I found it difficult to teach them to sleep between two sheets when we were able to supply but one.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XI. 8 It would be difficult to describe the hold that he had upon the students at Hampton, or the faith they had in him.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 9 Of course as the war was prolonged the white people, in many cases, often found it difficult to secure food for themselves.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 10 These people feared the result of education would be that the Negroes would leave the farms, and that it would be difficult to secure them for domestic service.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 11 For a long time one of the most difficult tasks was to teach the students that all the buttons were to be kept on their clothes, and that there must be no torn places or grease-spots.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XI. 12 Deep down in my heart the whole thing seemed more like a dream than like reality, and for a long time it was difficult for me to make myself believe that I was actually going to Europe.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI. 13 We found that for a whole week the coloured people in and around Tuskegee dropped work the day before Christmas, and that it was difficult for any one to perform any service from the time they stopped work until after the New Year.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 14 In one part of the country, where the law demands the separation of the races on the railroad trains, I saw at one time a rather amusing instance which showed how difficult it sometimes is to know where the black begins and the white ends.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. 15 It is difficult for me to think of any situation that is more trying on the nerves than that of conducting a large institution, with heavy obligations to meet, without knowing where the money is to come from to meet these obligations from month to month.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII. 16 When bills are on the eve of falling due, with not a dollar in hand with which to meet them, it is pretty difficult to learn not to worry, although I think I am learning more and more each year that all worry simply consumes, and to no purpose, just so much physical and mental strength that might otherwise be given to effective work.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII.