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1  The most perplexing question was where to find a teacher.

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

2  My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings.

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

3  I have, or have had, uncles and aunts and cousins, but I have no knowledge as to where most of them are.

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

4  The most trying ordeal that I was forced to endure as a slave boy, however, was the wearing of a flax shirt.

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

5  Some of our neighbours were coloured people, and some were the poorest and most ignorant and degraded white people.

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

6  Every success of the Federal armies and every defeat of the Confederate forces was watched with the keenest and most intense interest.

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

7  We were several weeks making the trip, and most of the time we slept in the open air and did our cooking over a log fire out-of-doors.

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

8  To get around this difficulty I yielded to a temptation for which most people, I suppose, will condemn me; but since it is a fact, I might as well state it.

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

9  In connection with the flax shirt, my brother John, who is several years older than I am, performed one of the most generous acts that I ever heard of one slave relative doing for another.

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

10  The slaves, of course, had little personal interest in the life of the plantation, and their ignorance prevented them from learning how to do things in the most improved and thorough manner.

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

11  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.

12  This experience of a whole race beginning to go to school for the first time, presents one of the most interesting studies that has ever occurred in connection with the development of any race.

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

13  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.

14  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.

15  During the period that I spent in slavery I was not large enough to be of much service, still I was occupied most of the time in cleaning the yards, carrying water to the men in the fields, or going to the mill to which I used to take the corn, once a week, to be ground.

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

16  One may get the idea, from what I have said, that there was bitter feeling toward the white people on the part of my race, because of the fact that most of the white population was away fighting in a war which would result in keeping the Negro in slavery if the South was successful.

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

17  At that time those cakes seemed to me to be absolutely the most tempting and desirable things that I had ever seen; and I then and there resolved that, if I ever got free, the height of my ambition would be reached if I could get to the point where I could secure and eat ginger-cakes in the way that I saw those ladies doing.

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