UP FROM SLAVERY (Intro, Chapter 1) by Booker T. Washington
This volume is the outgrowth of a series of articles, dealing with incidents in my life, which were published consecutively in the Outlook. -Booker T. Washington
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UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 2) by Booker T. Washington
This experience of a whole race beginning to go to school for the first time, presents one of the most interesting studies that has ever occurred in connection with the development of any race. Few people who were not right in the midst of the scenes can form any exact idea of the intense desire which the people of my race showed for an education. As I have stated, it was a whole race trying to go to school. Few were too young, and none too old, to make the attempt to learn.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 5) by Booker T. Washington
At Hampton it was a standing rule that, while the institution would be responsible for securing some one to pay the tuition for the students, the men and women themselves must provide for their own board, books, clothing, and room wholly by work, or partly by work and partly in cash. ... At Hampton the student was constantly making the effort through the industries to help himself, and that very effort was of immense value in character-building.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 6) by Booker T. Washington
I ... wondered if there was a white institution in this country whose students would have welcomed the incoming of more than a hundred companions of another race in the ... way that these black students at Hampton welcomed the red ones. How often I have wanted to say to white students that they lift themselves up in proportion as they help to lift others, and the more unfortunate the race, and the lower in the scale of civilization, the more does one raise one's self by giving the assistance.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 7) by Booker T. Washington
I reached Tuskegee, as I have said, early in June, 1881. The first month I spent in finding accommodations for the school, and in travelling through Alabama, examining ... the ... life of the people, ... I ate and slept with the people, in their little cabins. I saw their farms, their schools, their churches. Since, in ... most of these visits, there had been no notice given in advance that a stranger was expected, I had the advantage of seeing the real, everyday life of the people.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 10) by Booker T. Washington
My experience is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what colour of skin merit is found. I have found, too, that it is the visible, the tangible, that goes a long ways in softening prejudices. The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build. --Booker T. Washington
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 11) by Booker T. Washington
He cherished no bitterness against the South.... In all my acquaintance with General Armstrong I never heard him speak, in public or in private, a single bitter word against the white man in the South. ...great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 12) by Booker T. Washington
If the institution had been officered by white persons, and had failed, it would have injured the cause of Negro education; but I knew that the failure of our institution, officered by Negroes, would not only mean the loss of a school, but would cause people, in a large degree, to lose faith in the ability of the entire race. The receipt of this draft for ten thousand dollars, under all these circumstances, partially lifted a burden that had been pressing down upon me for days.
UP FROM SLAVERY (Chapter 13) by Booker T. Washington
I remembered that I had been a slave; that my early years had been spent in the lowest depths of poverty and ignorance, and that I had had little opportunity to prepare me for such a responsibility as this. It was only a few years before that time that any white man in the audience might have claimed me as his slave; and it was easily possible that some of my former owners might be present to hear me speak.