wunder beta📖 Up from Slavery
You are in a fourteen-by-sixteen cabin near Hale's Ford. He will not give you a birthday. Follow the salt figure 18, a swept recitation-room, and a speech that asks a hand to stay separate as fingers.
What you’ll learn
- A cabin without a dateShow that the book opens on a cabin it will not date, and that freedom arrives as a paper that immediately becomes work.Fourteen by sixteen feet near Hale's Ford. A guess of 1858 or 1859. Salt-furnace 18, then a coal-mine. Joy on the veranda, problems back at the cabins.
- Fifty cents and a broomShow that Hampton admits him by a swept room, and that Tuskegee begins as a borrowed church, unpaid land, and three ruined kilns.Fall 1872, fifty cents, Miss Mackie's handkerchief. July 4, 1881: thirty students, $2,000 for salaries only. A pawned watch buys the fourth kiln.
- The hand and the fingersShow that the Atlanta speech asks for industrial partnership while postponing social equality, and that the later quarrel is Du Bois in 1903, not a chapter here.Cast down your bucket. Fingers separate, hand one. Factory now, opera-house later. Close in Richmond, under the old sidewalk, with the question still open.
Questions this course answers
What birth year does chapter I actually give?
Chapter I: as nearly as I have been able to learn, I was born near Hale's Ford, and the year was 1858 or 1859. I do not know the month or the day. Later markers often use 1856; that is not this sentence.
What is Washington's "college examination" at Hampton?
Chapter III: he sweeps three times, dusts four. Mackie inspects with her handkerchief and says, I guess you will do to enter this institution. He calls that sweeping his college examination.
What does the brick-kiln story actually show?
Chapter X: about 25,000 bricks; first kiln fails, second fails, third falls at night. He pawns a watch in Montgomery for $15. The fourth attempt succeeds. Later a season makes 1,200,000 bricks.
Put these in the order the book gives them
Chapters I–II (cabin and Malden), III (Hampton), VII–X (Tuskegee and bricks), XIV (Atlanta).
Match the claim to where the book actually puts it
Birth is chapter I. The broom is chapter III. Thirty students is the opening day. The fingers sentence is the Atlanta speech as printed.
Where does the later name "Atlanta Compromise" come from?
Chapter XIV prints the speech and Creelman's report. It does not say Compromise. Du Bois, two years later, names the five-fingers sentence the Atlanta Compromise and lists three surrenders. The Library of Congress still has his congratulatory letter of 24 September 1895.
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