The Question and Answer section for Up From Slavery is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Booker's admission was only the first step. He had to earn money for tuition, and even after General Armstrong found someone to help with that, Booker still needed money for books and clothing. He worked at the school as a janitor, he spents hours...
Booker T. Washington is the narrator of the book. In the book, he shares his life story, from his early years in slavery to the height of his career as president of the Tuskegee Institute, renowned orator, and spokesman for the black race. Booker...
I'm not sure what part of the story you are referring to but I found this quote from the text:
There was a large clock in a little office in the furnace. This clock, of course, all the hundred or more workmen depended upon to regulate their hours...
