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Mifflin Wistar Gibbs. Shadow and Light
Shadow and Light
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PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
By BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CALL FOR A CONFERENCE ON "SCHOOLS OF TRADE."
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI
SHADOW
LIGHT
NO SYMPATHY WITH PREJUDICE
WASTING THEIR BREATH
THAT DINNER
DEMOCRATS HAVE CHANGED ATTITUDE. Glad of Booker T. Washington's Help in Securing Office. NOW JEER ROOSEVELT. Berate President for Dining With a Negro. Some Noted Occasions When the Alabama Educator Has Received the Plaudits of the South
INVITATION FROM WHITE HOUSE
AMUSES THE PRESIDENT
GIBBS' SPEECH THE BEST
BOOKER WASHINGTON THE VICTIM (From the Washington (D. C.) Post, October 23, 1901.)
CHAPTER XXXII
CHAPTER XXXIII
HOWARD UNIVERSITY
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Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century
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One other, and I shall pass this feature of reminiscence. It was that of William Brown, distinguished afterward as William Box Brown, the intervening "Box" being a synonym of the manner of his escape. An agent of the underground railroad at Richmond, Virginia, had placed him in a box two feet wide and four feet long, ends hooped, with holes for air, and bread and water, and sent him through the express company to Philadelphia. On the arrival of the steamboat the box was roughly tumbled off as so much dead freight on the wharf, but, unfortunately for Brown, on the end, with his feet up and head down. After remaining in such position for a time which seemed to him hours, he heard a man say to another, "Let's turn that box down and sit on it." It was done, and Brown found himself "right side up," if not "with care." I was called to the anti-slavery office, where the box was taken. It had been arranged that when he arrived at his destination, three slow and distinct knocks should be given, to which he was to respond. Fear that he was crippled or dead was depicted in the faces of Miller McKim, William Still and a few others that stood around the box in the office. Hence it was not without trepidation the agreed signal was given, and the response waited for. An "all right" was cheerily given; the lifting of suspense and the top of the box was almost simultaneous. Out sprang a man weighing near 200 pounds. Brown, though uneducated, it is needless to say, was imbued with the spirit of liberty, and with much natural ability, with his box he traveled and spoke of his experience in slavery, the novelty of his escape adding interest to his description. Many similar cases of heroism in manner of escape of men and women are recorded in William Still's "Underground Railroad."
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