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1  It was a cup of milk at one time and some potatoes at another.

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

2  I remember seeing him there perhaps once a year, that being about Christmas time.

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

3  My mother, of course, had little time in which to give attention to the training of her children during the day.

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

4  I remember that at one time I saw two of my young mistresses and some lady visitors eating ginger-cakes, in the yard.

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

5  He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

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

6  At that time a journey from Virginia over the mountains to West Virginia was rather a tedious and in some cases a painful undertaking.

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

7  We were several weeks making the trip, and most of the time we slept in the open air and did our cooking over a log fire out-of-doors.

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

8  I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth, but at any rate I suspect I must have been born somewhere and at some time.

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

9  But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

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

10  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. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

11  I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.

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

12  From the time that Garrison, Lovejoy, and others began to agitate for freedom, the slaves throughout the South kept in close touch with the progress of the movement.

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

13  From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

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

14  From the time of our parting till their death we kept up a correspondence with the older members of the family, and in later years we have kept in touch with those who were the younger members.

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

15  The wild rejoicing on the part of the emancipated coloured people lasted but for a brief period, for I noticed that by the time they returned to their cabins there was a change in their feelings.

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

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  At that time those cakes seemed to me to be absolutely the most tempting and desirable things that I had ever seen; and I then and there resolved that, if I ever got free, the height of my ambition would be reached if I could get to the point where I could secure and eat ginger-cakes in the way that I saw those ladies doing.

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