SLAVERY in Classic Quotes

1  She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

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

2  I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

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

3  The Indians, in the Indian Territory, owned a large number of slaves during the days of slavery.

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

4  During the days of slavery, and since, the town had been a centre for the education of the white people.

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

5  I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

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

6  They corresponded somewhat to the "patrollers" of whom I used to hear a great deal during the days of slavery, when I was a small boy.

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

7  The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.

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

8  I felt that the conditions were a good deal like those of an old coloured man, during the days of slavery, who wanted to learn how to play on the guitar.

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

9  When war was begun between the North and the South, every slave on our plantation felt and knew that, though other issues were discussed, the primal one was that of slavery.

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

10  They had spent the best days of their lives in slavery, and hardly expected to live to see the time when they would see a member of their race leave home to attend a boarding-school.

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

11  It could not have been expected that a people who had spent generations in slavery, and before that generations in the darkest heathenism, could at first form any proper conception of what an education meant.

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

12  Ever since I have been old enough to think for myself, I have entertained the idea that, notwithstanding the cruel wrongs inflicted upon us, the black man got nearly as much out of slavery as the white man did.

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

13  I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.

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

14  This is so to such an extent that Negroes in this country, who themselves or whose forefathers went through the school of slavery, are constantly returning to Africa as missionaries to enlighten those who remained in the fatherland.

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

15  Any other course my daily observation in the South convinces me, will be unjust to the Negro, unjust to the white man, and unfair to the rest of the state in the Union, and will be, like slavery, a sin that at some time we shall have to pay for.

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

16  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.

17  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.