1 This thought was with me day and night.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 2 There was little, if any, sleep that night.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 3 The "grape-vine telegraph" was kept busy night and day.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 4 It was bolder, had more ring, and lasted later into the night.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 5 Often I would have to walk several miles at night in order to recite my night-school lessons.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 6 Some of the slaves would even beg for the privilege of sitting up at night to nurse their wounded masters.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 7 These night lessons were so welcome that I think I learned more at night than the other children did during the day.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 8 She snatched a few moments for our care in the early morning before her work began, and at night after the day's work was done.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 9 After a while I succeeded in making arrangements with the teacher to give me some lessons at night, after the day's work was done.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 10 Any one attempting to harm "young Mistress" or "old Mistress" during the night would have had to cross the dead body of the slave to do so.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 11 One of my earliest recollections is that of my mother cooking a chicken late at night, and awakening her children for the purpose of feeding them.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 12 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. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 13 Sometimes, after I had secured some one to teach me at night, I would find, much to my disappointment, that the teacher knew but little more than I did.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 14 The "cat-hole" was a square opening, about seven by eight inches, provided for the purpose of letting the cat pass in and out of the house at will during the night.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 15 The night before the eventful day, word was sent to the slave quarters to the effect that something unusual was going to take place at the "big house" the next morning.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 16 One night I recall that we camped near an abandoned log cabin, and my mother decided to build a fire in that for cooking, and afterward to make a "pallet" on the floor for our sleeping.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 17 During the one or two winters that I was with her she gave me an opportunity to go to school for an hour in the day during a portion of the winter months, but most of my studying was done at night, sometimes alone, sometimes under some one whom I could hire to teach me.
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