1 As to clothes, when I reached Hampton I had practically nothing.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 2 I have often been asked how I began the practice of public speaking.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 3 Drinking, gambling, quarrels, fights, and shockingly immoral practices were frequent.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 4 There was practically no apparatus in the schoolhouses, except that occasionally there was a rough blackboard.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. 5 I had not been in this hotel long before I found out that I knew practically nothing about waiting on a hotel table.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. 6 About twenty of us formed a society for the purpose of utilizing this time in debate or in practice in public speaking.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. 7 In a few days practically all the students and teachers had left for their homes, and this served to depress my spirits even more.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. 8 The breakfast over, and with practically no attention given to the house, the whole family would, as a general thing, proceed to the cotton-field.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. 9 Notwithstanding the fact that he had lost the use of his limbs to such an extent that he was practically helpless, his wish was gratified, and he was brought to Tuskegee.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII. 10 Aside from this, we wanted to give them such a practical knowledge of some one industry, together with the spirit of industry, thrift, and economy, that they would be sure of knowing how to make a living after they had left us.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 11 It is true I had practically no money in my pocket with which to pay for bed or food, but I had hoped in some way to beg my way into the good graces of the landlord, for at that season in the mountains of Virginia the weather was cold, and I wanted to get indoors for the night.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 12 After the coming of freedom there were two points upon which practically all the people on our place were agreed, and I found that this was generally true throughout the South: that they must change their names, and that they must leave the old plantation for at least a few days or weeks in order that they might really feel sure that they were free.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 13 The more I consider the subject, the more strongly I am convinced that the most harmful effect of the practice to which the people in certain sections of the South have felt themselves compelled to resort, in order to get rid of the force of the Negroes' ballot, is not wholly in the wrong done to the Negro, but in the permanent injury to the morals of the white man.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XI.