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Booker T. Washington

Up from Slavery

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Language
English
First published
1901
Reading time
320 minutes
Chapters
18 chapters

About this book

Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in Virginia and never knew the exact date of his own birth.

In this autobiography he describes childhood in a one-room cabin, the morning freedom was announced, work in salt furnaces and a coal mine, and his long journey, partly on foot, to study at the Hampton Institute. He went on to build the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama from almost nothing. Written in 1901 in a calm, direct voice, it is a key book of American history and a moving story of determination, though readers have long debated his cautious views on civil rights.

This volume is the outgrowth of a series of articles, dealing with incidents in my life, which were published consecutively in the Outlook. While they were appearing in that magazine I was constantly surprised at the number of requests which came to me from…

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Chapters

18 chapters
  1. Preface1 min
  2. Chapter I. A Slave Among Slaves23 min
  3. Chapter II. Boyhood Days19 min
  4. Chapter III. The Struggle For An Education22 min
  5. Chapter IV. Helping Others17 min
  6. Chapter V. The Reconstruction Period12 min
  7. Chapter VI. Black Race And Red Race14 min
  8. Chapter VII. Early Days At Tuskegee12 min
  9. Chapter VIII. Teaching School In A Stable And A Hen-House16 min
  10. Chapter IX. Anxious Days And Sleepless Nights15 min
  11. Chapter X. A Harder Task Than Making Bricks Without Straw15 min
  12. Chapter XI. Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them14 min
  13. Chapter XII. Raising Money20 min
  14. Chapter XIII. Two Thousand Miles For A Five-Minute Speech21 min
  15. Chapter XIV. The Atlanta Exposition Address21 min
  16. Chapter XV. The Secret Of Success In Public Speaking31 min
  17. Chapter XVI. Europe26 min
  18. Chapter XVII. Last Words28 min

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