Working With the Hands / Being a Sequel to "Up from Slavery," Covering the Author's Experiences in Industrial Training at Tuskegee

The author outlines an approach to industrial education that links manual trades, agriculture, and domestic arts with moral, religious, and academic instruction so that head, hands, and heart develop together. He explains institutional principles that prioritize teaching over immediate profit, send trained students back into the community, and renew programs with new learners. Detailed accounts of practical curricula include carpentry, blacksmithing, farming, sewing, experimental agriculture, and homemaking, with students constructing buildings and workshops as learning laboratories. The narrative also discusses outreach strategies, the role of women in outdoor and household work, and tangible measures of increased self-reliance and community improvement.