FREEDOM in Classic Quotes

1  This was one of the first signs of freedom.

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

2  Finally the war closed, and the day of freedom came.

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

3  Most of the verses of the plantation songs had some reference to freedom.

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

4  He felt that he could not enjoy his freedom till he had fulfilled his promise.

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

5  When freedom came, he was still in debt to his master some three hundred dollars.

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

6  From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom.

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

7  As soon as freedom was declared, he sent for my mother to come to the Kanawha Valley, in West Virginia.

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

8  Naturally much of the conversation of the white people turned upon the subject of freedom and the war, and I absorbed a good deal of it.

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

9  Now they gradually threw off the mask, and were not afraid to let it be known that the "freedom" in their songs meant freedom of the body in this world.

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

10  When freedom came, the slaves were almost as well fitted to begin life anew as the master, except in the matter of book-learning and ownership of property.

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

11  From the time that Garrison, Lovejoy, and others began to agitate for freedom, the slaves throughout the South kept in close touch with the progress of the movement.

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

12  True, they had sung those same verses before, but they had been careful to explain that the "freedom" in these songs referred to the next world, and had no connection with life in this world.

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

13  As I have stated, most of the coloured people left the old plantation for a short while at least, so as to be sure, it seemed, that they could leave and try their freedom on to see how it felt.

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  Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the northern armies conquered.

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

16  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.

17  So far as I can now recall, the first knowledge that I got of the fact that we were slaves, and that freedom of the slaves was being discussed, was early one morning before day, when I was awakened by my mother kneeling over her children and fervently praying that Lincoln and his armies might be successful, and that one day she and her children might be free.

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