Up from Slavery, Chapter 10 summary

What happens

1. The narrator insists that students construct school buildings to learn useful skills, independence, and respect for work.
2. After three failed kilns, he pawns his watch for fifteen dollars and finances a successful fourth brickmaking attempt.
3. Sales of bricks and student-built vehicles bring income, meet local needs, and encourage cooperation between Black and white people.
4. Despite parents’ protests against trade instruction, enrollment grows, and northern fundraising helps make Porter Hall usable for a Thanksgiving service.
5. Reverend Robert C. Bedford becomes a trustee, and Mr. Warren Logan provides financial management and leadership during the narrator’s absences.
6. Students dig a basement dining area, endure shortages and failed meals, and gradually establish an orderly boarding department.

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