TRADE in Classic Quotes

1  I like my work so much that I want to work at my trade all day.

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

2  Young as he is, he has already nearly mastered the brickmason's trade.

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

3  Besides this he usually works at his trade during the three summer months.

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

4  My dear Papa: Before you left home you told me to work at my trade half of each day.

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

5  The older of these, Booker, has already mastered the brick-maker's trade at Tuskegee.

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

6  Mr. Adams was a mechanic, and had learned the trades of shoemaking, harness-making, and tinsmithing during the days of slavery.

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

7  My old master had many boys and girls, but not one, so far as I know, ever mastered a single trade or special line of productive industry.

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

8  After the student has left the night-school he enters the day-school, where he takes academic branches four days in a week, and works at his trade two days.

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

9  When I left home for the summer, I told him that he must work at his trade half of each day, and that the other half of the day he could spend as he pleased.

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

10  It was further required that they must work for ten hours during the day at some trade or industry, and study academic branches for two hours during the evening.

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

11  In this way they would obtain a start in their books and a knowledge of some trade or industry, in addition to the other far-reaching benefits of the institution.

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

12  He began working at this trade when he was quite small, dividing his time between this and class work; and he has developed great skill in the trade and a fondness for it.

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

13  I have always felt that Mr. Adams, in a large degree, derived his unusual power of mind from the training given his hands in the process of mastering well three trades during the days of slavery.

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

14  When the difficulty of learning the English language was subtracted, I found that in the matter of learning trades and in mastering academic studies there was little difference between the coloured and Indian students.

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

15  If one goes to-day into any Southern town, and asks for the leading and most reliable coloured man in the community, I believe that in five cases out of ten he will be directed to a Negro who learned a trade during the days of slavery.

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

16  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. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

17  Thomas Fortune, who has always upheld my hands in every effort, I organized the National Negro Business League, which held its first meeting in Boston, and brought together for the first time a large number of the coloured men who are engaged in various lines of trade or business in different parts of the United States.

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