1 These barrels proved a blessing to hundreds of poor but deserving students.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 2 Notwithstanding the poor condition of our plantation cabin, we were at all times sure of pure air.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 3 The average crank has a long beard, poorly cared for, a lean, narrow face, and wears a black coat.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XV. 4 While the poorly built cabin caused us to suffer with cold in the winter, the heat from the open fireplace in summer was equally trying.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 5 At another time I remember that I made it known in chapel, one night, that a very poor student was suffering from cold, because he needed a coat.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 6 With few exceptions, I found the teachers in these country schools to be miserably poor in preparation for their work, and poor in moral character.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. 7 Many of them were as poor as I was, and, besides having to wrestle with their books, they had to struggle with a poverty which prevented their having the necessities of life.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 8 Time and time again he said to me, during this visit, that it was not only the duty of the country to assist in elevating the Negro of the South, but the poor white man as well.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII. 9 Soon after the opening of our boarding department, quite a number of students who evidently were worthy, but who were so poor that they did not have any money to pay even the small charges at the school, began applying for admission.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 10 I recall that during the first months of school that I taught in this building it was in such poor repair that, whenever it rained, one of the older students would very kindly leave his lessons and hold an umbrella over me while I heard the recitations of the others.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. 11 I heard one tell the other that not only was the school established for the members of any race, but the opportunities that it provided by which poor but worthy students could work out all or a part of the cost of a board, and at the same time be taught some trade or industry.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 12 As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some reason have become poor and dependent since the war.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 13 In the first place, those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much suffering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII. 14 General Armstrong had found out that there was quite a number of young coloured men and women who were intensely in earnest in wishing to get an education, but who were prevented from entering Hampton Institute because they were too poor to be able to pay any portion of the cost of their board, or even to supply themselves with books.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VI.