Up From Slavery
Author:
Booker T. Washington
Content:
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Publication:
1901 by Doubleday, Page & Company
Genre:
Autobiography, Non-fiction
Pages:
330
Current state:
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Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington. The book describes his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. His goal was to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in educating blacks and Native Americans. In 1998, the Modern Library listed the book at No. 3 on its list of the 100 best nonfiction books of the 20th century.
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Up From Slavery and The Atlanta Compromise Speech 
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A nice, unabridged edition of this classic with 28 photographs and illustrations, including the text of his influential 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech. Fonts common 100 years ago are used and the format and illustrations from an early edition are reproduced—recreating the feeling of reading the original book.
Up From Slavery: Illustrated First Edition
Reprinted in 2020 by SeaWolf Press
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A nice, unabridged edition of this classic with 28 photographs and illustrations. Fonts common 100 years ago are used and the format and illustrations from an early edition are reproduced—recreating the feeling of reading the original book.
Up From Slavery
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Reprint Cover Art by Dan Burr
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Up from Slavery
This very worthy autobiography should be on the reading list of every teenager and adult...
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Up From Slavery
Reviewed by Sherry Early
In reading this autobiography, I came to the conclusion that Washington was both intelligent and wise, choosing to do the work that could be done in the time and cultural milieu in which he was placed. He did much to improve the status and education of Black people in a time and place when such a movement was not only discouraged but oppressed and disallowed.
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