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1  Most of the students went home to spend their vacation.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.
2  I had no money with which to go home, but I had to go somewhere.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.
3  General Armstrong spent two of the last six months of his life in my home at Tuskegee.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
4  I not only had no money with which to go home, but I had none with which to go anywhere.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.
5  Besides, when I was late in getting home I knew I would always get a severe scolding or a flogging.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
6  When the two young masters were brought home wounded, the sympathy of the slaves was shown in many ways.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
7  It made me feel very sad and homesick to see the other students preparing to leave and starting for home.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.
8  The great and prevailing idea that seemed to take possession of every one was to prepare himself to lift up the people at his home.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
9  These were the questions of a home, a living, the rearing of children, education, citizenship, and the establishment and support of churches.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
10  I had not been away from home many hours before it began to grow painfully evident that I did not have enough money to pay my fare to Hampton.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
11  The time consumed in this way made me late in reaching the mill, and by the time I got my corn ground and reached home it would be far into the night.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
12  Our new home was in the midst of a cluster of cabins crowded closely together, and as there were no sanitary regulations, the filth about the cabins was often intolerable.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.
13  They had spent the best days of their lives in slavery, and hardly expected to live to see the time when they would see a member of their race leave home to attend a boarding-school.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
14  At any rate, I here repeat what I have said more than once before, that the lessons that I learned in the home of Mrs. Ruffner were as valuable to me as any education I have ever gotten anywhere else.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
15  The lessons taught me in this respect took such a hold upon me that at the present time, when I am at home, no matter how busy I am, I always make it a rule to read a chapter or a portion of a chapter in the morning, before beginning the work of the day.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.
16  As a rule, there was food for whites and blacks, but inside the house, and on the dining-room table, there was wanting that delicacy and refinement of touch and finish which can make a home the most convenient, comfortable, and attractive place in the world.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
17  When he was a guest at my home in Alabama, and was so badly paralyzed that he had to be wheeled about in an invalid's chair, I recall that one of the General's former students had occasion to push his chair up a long, steep hill that taxed his strength to the utmost.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
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