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Booker T. Washington (April 18, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an African American educator, leader, author and orator and was an adviser to several US presidents. He was born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia, remembering

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Booker T. Washington's classic autobiography, detailing his life from his childhood as a slave child, through the Civil War and into his founding of the Tuskegee Institute.

During his unchallenged reign as black America's foremost spokesman, former slave Booker T. Washington treaded a dangerous middle ground in a time of racial backlash and disfranchisement: as he publicly acquiesced to whites on issues of social equality, he fiercely exhorted blacks,... Read Full Overview

This autobiography of Booker T. Washington is unabridged, and contains an additional annotation at the start of the book. This section aims to give the reader an historical context, and contains a brief History of Slavery in America, and the Abolishment of Slavery. This will... Read Full Overview

This book contains both classics by Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass, both men who were born slaves but became world-renowned thinkers and educators in their time. The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass was published eighteen years before the abolition of... Read Full Overview

This Townsend Library classic has been carefully edited to be more accessible to today's students. It includes a background note about the book, an author's biography, and a lively afterword. Acclaimed by educators nationwide, the Townsend Library is helping millions of young... Read Full Overview

Up From Slavery is an autobiographical work by Booker T. Washington, an African American educator and civil rights leader. The book chronicles Washington's life from his childhood as a slave in Virginia to his rise as a prominent figure in American society. Washington describes... Read Full Overview

Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of... Read Full Overview

"Contexts and Composition History" includes a selection of letters between Washington and his editor, Lyman Abbott, that reveals the process by which Up From Slavery was planned and written. Reviews from The Nation, North American Review, and Colored American Magazine offer examples... Read Full Overview

Detailing how Booker T. Washington rose from slavery to become one of the nations most prominent orators and educators at the turn of the 20th century, Up from Slavery chronciles the journey through Washingtons own words alongside documents that put the book into context.

First published serially in the Christian newspaper "The Outlook" in 1900, "Up from Slavery" is the classic autobiography of one of the most controversial figures in American history, Booker T. Washington. "Up from Slavery", recounts Washington's rise from a Virginia tobacco... Read Full Overview