1 In Washington I saw girls whose mothers were earning their living by laundrying.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter V. 2 Besides, I want to earn all the money I can, so that when I go to another school I shall have money to pay my expenses.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI. 3 Most of the students wanted to get an education because they thought it would enable them to earn more money as school-teachers.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 4 The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIV. 5 They had no strength with which to earn a living in a strange place and among strange people, even if they had been sure where to find a new place of abode.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 6 I worked long enough to earn money for my breakfast, and it seems to me, as I remember it now, to have been about the best breakfast that I have ever eaten.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 7 Before the end of the vacation she gave me some work, and this, together with work in a coal-mine at some distance from my home, enabled me to earn a little money.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. 8 I spent nearly the whole of the first month of my vacation in an effort to find something to do by which I could earn money to pay my way back to Hampton and save a little money to use after reaching there.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. 9 The greater part of their earnings was to be reserved in the school's treasury as a fund to be drawn on to pay their board when they had become students in the day-school, after they had spent one or two years in the night-school.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. 10 My brother John helped me all that he could, but of course that was not a great deal, for his work was in the coal-mine, where he did not earn much, and most of what he did earn went in the direction of paying the household expenses.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 11 The small amount of money that I had earned had been consumed by my stepfather and the remainder of the family, with the exception of a very few dollars, and so I had very little with which to buy clothes and pay my travelling expenses.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 12 I saw young coloured men who were not earning more than four dollars a week spend two dollars or more for a buggy on Sunday to ride up and down Pennsylvania Avenue in, in order that they might try to convince the world that they were worth thousands.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter V. 13 Thus another object which made it desirable to get an industrial system started was in order to make it available as a means of helping the students to earn money enough so that they might be able to remain in school during the nine months' session of the school year.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 14 They were to be paid something above the cost of their board, with the understanding that all of their earnings, except a very small part, were to be reserved in the school's treasury, to be used for paying their board in the regular day-school after they had entered that department.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 15 I have usually proceeded on the principle that persons who possess sense enough to earn money have sense enough to know how to give it away, and that the mere making known of the facts regarding Tuskegee, and especially the facts regarding the work of the graduates, has been more effective than outright begging.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII.