1 I saw their farms, their schools, their churches.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. 2 We began with farming, because we wanted something to eat.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 3 I presume, however, it was procured from our owner's farm.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 4 I lost no time in getting ready to move the school on to the new farm.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 5 For several months the work of securing the money with which to pay for the farm went on without ceasing.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 6 As soon as we got the farm work reasonably well started, we directed our next efforts toward the industry of making bricks.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter X. 7 I recall one old coloured women who was about seventy years of age, who came to see me when we were raising money to pay for the farm.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 8 We now own and use on our farm and about the school dozens of these vehicles, and every one of them has been built by the hands of the students.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter X. 9 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. 10 Marshall, the Treasurer of the Hampton Institute, who had had faith enough to lend us the first two hundred and fifty dollars with which to make a payment down on the farm.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XI. 11 The school was constantly growing in numbers, so much so that, after we had got the farm paid for, the cultivation of the land begun, and the old cabins which we had found on the place somewhat repaired, we turned our attention toward providing a large, substantial building.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 12 We wanted to give them such an education as would fit a large proportion of them to be teachers, and at the same time cause them to return to the plantation districts and show the people there how to put new energy and new ideas into farming, as well as into the intellectual and moral and religious life of the people.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 13 Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy farm or truck garden.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIV.