...UP FROM SLAVERY: An Autobiography by BOOKER T. WASHINGTON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Up from Sla... ...lassics Series Publication Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This P... ...trans- mission, in any way. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electronic Classics Series... .... When freedom came, he was still in debt to his master some three hundred dollars. Notwithstanding that the Emancipation Proclamation freed him from ... ...stance back to where his old master lived in Virginia, and placed the last dollar, with interest, in his hands. In talking to me about this, the man t... ...epfather and the remainder of the family, with the exception of a very few dollars, and so I had very little with which to buy clothes and pay my trav... ...eir local communities, and to advise with their friends in regard to their voting. For several months the work of securing the money with which to pay... ...an learn to swim by keeping out of the water, but I do believe that in his voting he should more and more be influenced by those of intelligence and c... ...ken white man to vote, and prevents a black man in the same condition from voting. Such a law is not only unjust, but it will react, as all unjust law...

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