Up from Slavery: An AutobiographyDoubleday, Page & Company, 1902 - 330 pages |
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Page 222 - Oppressor with oppressed ; And close as sin and suffering joined We march to fate abreast. Nearly sixteen millions of hands will aid you in pulling the load upward, or they will pull against you the load downward. We shall constitute onethird and more of the ignorance and crime of the South, or one-third its intelligence
Page 220 - and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life ; shall prosper in proportion as we learn to draw the line between the superficial and the substantial, the ornamental gewgaws of life and the useful. No race can
Page 18 - single trade or special line of productive industry. The girls were not taught to cook, sew, or to take care of the house. All of this was left to the slaves. The slaves, of course, had little personal interest in the life of the plantation, and their \ ignorance prevented them from learning how to
Page 220 - till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the
Page 23 - BOYHOOD DAYS AFTER the coming of freedom there were two points upon which practically all the people on our place were agreed, and I find 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
Page 202 - else — learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner — had solved his problem, regardless of the colour of his skin, and that in proportion as the Negro learned to produce what other people wanted and must have, in the same proportion would he be respected. I spoke of an instance where one of our
Page 324 - have the sympathy, the support, and the forbearance of the rest of the world. As I write the closing words of this autobiography I find myself— not by design — in the city of Richmond, Virginia : the city which only a few decades ago was the capital of the Southern Confederacy, and where, about twenty-five years ago,
Page 306 - better relations between your race and mine, I assure you from this day it will mean doubly more. In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed — there is but one for a race. This country demands that every race
Page 213 - Atlanta. I felt a good deal as I suppose a man feels when he is on his way to the gallows. In passing through the town of Tuskegee I met a white farmer who lived some distance out in the country. In a jesting manner this man said
Page 57 - feeling of despondency. I have spoken of my admiration for General Armstrong, and yet he was but a type of that Christlike body of men and women who went into the Negro schools at the close of the war by the hundreds to assist in lifting up my race. The