Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
- Length
- 34 mornings, about 2,200 words a reading
About the book
Up from Slavery is the autobiography of Booker T. Washington, first printed as a series of articles in the Outlook magazine and published as a book in New York in 1901. Washington was born a slave in Franklin County, Virginia, in 1858 or 1859, and became the founder and head of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama. In his preface he says much of the book was written on trains and in hotels and railway stations.
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