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1  With this end in view men and women who were fifty or seventy-five years old would often be found in the night-school.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

2  In the first place, I found that all the other children wore hats or caps on their heads, and I had neither hat nor cap.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

3  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. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

4  When, however, I found myself at the school for the first time, I also found myself confronted with two other difficulties.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

5  This I found myself doing morning after morning, till the furnace "boss" discovered that something was wrong, and locked the clock in a case.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

6  In some way, during the war, by running away and following the Federal soldiers, it seems, he found his way into the new state of West Virginia.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

7  In the midst of the discussion about a teacher, another young coloured man from Ohio, who had been a soldier, in some way found his way into town.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

8  The schoolhouse was some distance from the furnace, and as I had to work till nine o'clock, and the school opened at nine, I found myself in a difficulty.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

9  Besides, deep down in their hearts there was a strange and peculiar attachment to "old Marster" and "old Missus," and to their children, which they found it hard to think of breaking off.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

10  The mine was divided into a large number of different "rooms" or departments, and, as I never was able to learn the location of all these "rooms," I many times found myself lost in the mine.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

11  The woods were said to be full of soldiers who had deserted from the army, and I had been told that the first thing a deserter did to a Negro boy when he found him alone was to cut off his ears.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

12  To add to the horror of being lost, sometimes my light would go out, and then, if I did not happen to have a match, I would wander about in the darkness until by chance I found some one to give me a light.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

13  Every persecuted individual and race should get much consolation out of the great human law, which is universal and eternal, that merit, no matter under what skin found, is, in the long run, recognized and rewarded.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

14  I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

15  As soon as the coloured people found out that he could read, a newspaper was secured, and at the close of nearly every day's work this young man would be surrounded by a group of men and women who were anxious to hear him read the news contained in the papers.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

16  I found that this man had made a contract with his master, two or three years previous to the Emancipation Proclamation, to the effect that the slave was to be permitted to buy himself, by paying so much per year for his body; and while he was paying for himself, he was to be permitted to labour where and for whom he pleased.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
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17  After the coming of freedom there were two points upon which practically all the people on our place were agreed, and I found that this was generally true throughout the South: that they must change their names, and that they must leave the old plantation for at least a few days or weeks in order that they might really feel sure that they were free.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.