. Afro-American encyclopaedia, or, The thoughts, doings, and sayings of the race [electronic resource]: embracing addresses, lectures, biographical sketches, sermons, poems, names of universities, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, books, and a history of the denominations, giving the numerical strength of each : in fact, it teaches every subject of interest to the colored people, as discussed by more than one hundred of their wisest and best men and women : illustrated with beautiful half-tone engravings . le livingwith Dr. Eve he attended night school at the old Fisk School, nowFisk Universit
. Afro-American encyclopaedia, or, The thoughts, doings, and sayings of the race [electronic resource]: embracing addresses, lectures, biographical sketches, sermons, poems, names of universities, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, books, and a history of the denominations, giving the numerical strength of each : in fact, it teaches every subject of interest to the colored people, as discussed by more than one hundred of their wisest and best men and women : illustrated with beautiful half-tone engravings . le livingwith Dr. Eve he attended night school at the old Fisk School, nowFisk University, where he learned to spell and read in McGuffeysFirst Reader. In 1868 he was put to work on a farm in Giles he worked till 1871 when he returned to Nashville and began towork at the brick trade. He had not yet learned to write and knewbut the elements of reading. His soul was kindled with the hope ofan education. His ambition was aroused so in 1872 he hired himselfto General James H. Hickman, a real estate agent, to work half theday for something to eat, and he attended school the other half. Hekept up this contract with General Hickman for three years, at theend of which he was doing all the outside collections and doing theentire bookkeeping of the office. The General never paid him anymoney during this time, but when he found that the Doctor meant toquit he offered him $20, S>:10 and $50 per month to stay and do thesame work that he had been doing for his meals. But our hero had. I>k. Robert Fultox Boyd. , Trim. THOUGHTS, DOINGS, AND SAYINGS OP THE RACE. 61 higher ambition and more lofty aspirations. He left General Hick-man in the early summer of 1875 and entered upon the profession ofschool teaching at College Grove, Williamson County, soul was in the work and he impressed the people with his earn-est, energetic, conscientious spirit. At the close of a most successfulterm here, he returned to his studies at the Central Tennesse
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