Up from Slavery, Chapter 11 summary

What happens

1. Visitors from Hampton praise Tuskegee’s progress, and General Armstrong’s kindness toward Southern white people challenges the narrator’s assumptions.
2. The narrator rejects racial hatred and argues that racial injustice also damages the morals of those who practice it.
3. Growing enrollment strains boarding arrangements, and students endure bitter cold with inadequate bedding and little complaint.
4. Students show the narrator kindness, and white travelers greet him warmly despite his anxiety about sharing a meal with Boston women.
5. The narrator encourages students to criticize school arrangements and treats trust and shared responsibility as essential to leadership.
6. Students make furniture as their skills improve, while the school insists on clean rooms, toothbrushes, bathing, and well-kept clothing.

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