Up from Slavery, Chapter 4 summary

What happens

1. Unable to afford travel after his first year, the narrator works at a restaurant and receives permission to return to Hampton with unpaid debt.
2. Hampton’s teachers teach him service, Bible reading, public speaking, and respect for practical work.
3. During his next vacation, his mother dies, household life deteriorates, and scarce work makes returning to school difficult.
4. Miss Mary F. Mackie offers cleaning work, and he completes Hampton’s course in June 1875 before taking hotel employment.
5. He returns to Malden to teach, opens a night school, organizes other learning activities, and helps John and James attend Hampton.
6. He describes Ku Klux violence, recalls a battle in Malden, and contrasts that period with conditions at the time of his narration.

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