1 I presume, however, it was procured from our owner's farm.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 2 The slave owner and his sons had mastered no special industry.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 3 In fact, there was pity among the slaves for our former owners.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 4 My mother, I suppose, attracted the attention of a purchaser who was afterward my owner and hers.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 5 The parting from our former owners and the members of our own race on the plantation was a serious occasion.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 6 This was so, however, not because my owners were especially cruel, for they were not, as compared with many others.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 7 My mother's husband, who was the stepfather of my brother John and myself, did not belong to the same owners as did my mother.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 8 I have known of still other cases in which the former slaves have assisted in the education of the descendants of their former owners.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 9 While at work there, I heard of a vacant position in the household of General Lewis Ruffner, the owner of the salt-furnace and coal-mine.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 10 In some way a feeling got among the coloured people that it was far from proper for them to bear the surname of their former owners, and a great many of them took other surnames.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 11 Gradually, one by one, stealthily at first, the older slaves began to wander from the slave quarters back to the "big house" to have a whispered conversation with their former owners as to the future.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 12 After they had remained away for a while, many of the older slaves, especially, returned to their old homes and made some kind of contract with their former owners by which they remained on the estate.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 13 It was only a few years before that time that any white man in the audience might have claimed me as his slave; and it was easily possible that some of my former owners might be present to hear me speak.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 14 The owner of the land agreed to let us occupy the place if we could make a payment of two hundred and fifty dollars down, with the understanding that the remaining two hundred and fifty dollars must be paid within a year.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII.