In this cabin I lived with my mother and a brotherĪnd sister till after the Civil War, when we were all Log cabin, about fourteen by sixteen feet square. This was so, however, not because my owners wereĬompared with many others. Most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings.
My life had its beginning in the midst of the The plantation where the slaves had their cabins. Impressions I can now recall are of the plantationĪnd the slave quarters - the latter being the part of
Learn, I was born near a cross-roads post-officeĬalled Hale's Ford, and the year was 1858 or 1859. I am not quite sure of theĮxact place or exact date of my birth, but atĪny rate I suspect I must have been born somewhereĪnd at some time. I WAS born a slave on a plantation in FranklinĬounty, Virginia. The Secret of Success in Public Speaking. Two Thousand Miles for a Five-Minute Speech. Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie on Them. A Harder Task Than Making Bricks Without Straw. Teaching School in a Stable and a Hen-House. The painstaking and generous assistance of Hotels or railroad stations while I have been waitingįor trains, or during the moments that I could Have said has been written on board trains, or at Institute, and in securing the money necessary for Strength is required for the executive work connected That what I have attempted to do has been done so I have tried to tell a simple, straightforward story, I am most grateful to the Outlook for permission to gratify these requests. That the articles be permanently preserved in bookįorm. Surprised at the number of requests whichĬame to me from all parts of the country, asking They were appearing in that magazine I was constantly Were published consecutively in the Outlook. THIS volume is the outgrowth of a series ofĪrticles, dealing with incidents in my life, which
Whose patience, fidelity and hard work have gone far THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N.Y. Educators - United States - Biography.įinished TEI-conformant encoding and finalĪuthor of "The Future of the American Negro." GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK.Spell-check and verification made against printed text usingĪuthor/Editor (SoftQuad) and Microsoft Word spell checkers. Indentation in lines has not been preserved. Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.Īll quotation marks and ampersand have been transcribed asĪll double right and left quotation marks are encoded as " and " The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-Chapel Hillĭigitization project, Documenting the American South. Source Description: Up From Slavery: An Autobiography University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,Ĭall number E185.97. | Buy DocSouth Books Up From Slavery: An Autobiography:Įlectronic Edition.
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