Up from Slavery

secure and eat ginger-cakes in

great ambition of the older people was to try to learn to read the Bible before they died

These were the questions of a home, a living, the rearing of children, education, citizenship, and the establishment and support of churches.

gotten by the children very much as dumb animals get theirs.

most trying ordeal that I was forced to endure as a slave boy, however, was the wearing of a flax shirt.

The slave system on our place, in a large measure, took the spirit of self-reliance and self-help out of the white people.