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1  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.
2  In our country the servant expects to become, in a few years, a "master" himself.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI.
3  During the Civil War one of my young masters was killed, and two were severely wounded.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
4  "Mars' Billy" had begged for mercy in the case of others when the overseer or master was thrashing them.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
5  In company with my mother, brother, and sister, and a large number of other slaves, I went to the master's house.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
6  My old master had many boys and girls, but not one, so far as I know, ever mastered a single trade or special line of productive industry.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
7  All of our master's family were either standing or seated on the veranda of the house, where they could see what was to take place and hear what was said.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
8  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.
9  In talking to me about this, the man told me that he knew that he did not have to pay the debt, but that he had given his word to the master, and his word he had never broken.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
10  Though she was totally ignorant, she had high ambitions for her children, and a large fund of good, hard, common sense, which seemed to enable her to meet and master every situation.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.
11  I make it a rule never to let my work drive me, but to so master it, and keep it in such complete control, and to keep so far ahead of it, that I will be the master instead of the servant.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV.
12  There is a physical and mental and spiritual enjoyment that comes from a consciousness of being the absolute master of one's work, in all its details, that is very satisfactory and inspiring.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV.
13  Many of the older ones were, of course, too old to master the text-books very thoroughly, and it was often sad to watch their struggles; but they made up in earnest much of what they lacked in books.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
14  I had to summon a good deal of courage to take a student who had been studying cube root and "banking and discount," and explain to him that the wisest thing for him to do first was thoroughly master the multiplication table.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.
15  The mail-carrier on his way back to our master's house would as naturally retail the news that he had secured among the slaves, and in this way they often heard of important events before the white people at the "big house," as the master's house was called.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
16  Notwithstanding that the Emancipation Proclamation freed him from any obligation to his master, this black man walked the greater portion of the distance back to where his old master lived in Virginia, and placed the last dollar, with interest, in his hands.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
17  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
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
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